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The ﬁrst year of
‘dreamers’
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Josue Faguiluz, a student at Montgomery College, plans to go to the
University of Maryland under the Maryland Dream Act.
200 immigrant students have registered at
Montgomery College under the Maryland Dream Act
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ALINE BARROS
BY
STAFF WRITER
n the ﬁrst year that undocumented immigrants
could get in-county tuition rates at local colleges, 200
registered at Montgomery College under the Maryland Dream Act.
That’s almost half the number that an analysis by
the Maryland Department of Legislative Services had
predicted at the college by 2013.
An analysis attached to the bill that passed allowing the tuition change estimated that 366 full-time
undocumented students would qualify for in-county tuition at
Montgomery College.
The Maryland Dream Act was approved by the legislature
in 2011. It was petitioned to referendum, then afﬁrmed in the
Nov. 6, 2012, election, passing with more than 58 percent of
statewide votes.
College ofﬁcials said that after the law passed, they were in
a “mad dash” trying to get information together for the upcoming spring 2013 students, as they tried to reach every student
who would be eligible under the new law.
“Students came in and identiﬁed themselves and provided
the forms that we needed to process,” said Melissa Gregory,
chief of enrollment services and a ﬁnancial aid ofﬁcer at Montgomery College.
The law exempts undocumented students who attended
and graduated from Maryland high schools from paying outof-state or out out-of-county rates at colleges in Maryland.
Gregory said the biggest challenge after the Dream Act
passed was to identify the students eligible under the bill.
“We don’t ask students to identify their status in that way,
so we had to look for students that had missing information
See DREAMERS, Page A-12
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With air temperatures in the low teens, Jose Velasquez of Wheaton bundles up Tuesday while waiting for a bus to arrive outside the Wheaton Metro
station.
Mother Nature gives county the
COLD SHOULDER
Emergency shelters open;
power outages and water
main breaks pop up
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BY JENN DAVIS, TERRI HOGAN
AND SYLVIA CARIGNAN
STAFF WRITERS
A blast of windy, arctic air
Tuesday spurred Montgomery
County ofﬁcials to keep emergency shelters open for the
homeless and sparked a string of
power outages and water main
breaks.
Temperatures throughout
the region hovered in the low single digits early Tuesday, accord-
Rockville appeals court order
to release part of Ewing report
Employee bringing suit
against the city wants to
see investigation results
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BY
ELIZABETH WAIBEL
STAFF WRITER
A judge has ordered the city
of Rockville to produce portions of a conﬁdential report of
an investigation into employee
complaints so it can be used as
evidence in a lawsuit, but the
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city is not yet ready to reveal any
of it.
Montgomery County Circuit
Court Judge Sharon V. Burrell
ordered the city to let plaintiff
Donald Dorsey, who is suing the
city, see portions of the summaries of interviews with ﬁve
people included in the report,
according to court records. Attorneys for the city have ﬁled a
notice of appeal.
Dorsey, a Rockville public
works employee, sued the city
last year, saying he was dis-
criminated against because he
is black. Dorsey’s lawsuit came
a few months after the city said
it would not release a report by
Saul Ewing LLP, the ﬁrm Rockville hired to investigate employee complaints and review
its personnel policies. The ﬁrm
conducted more than 40 interviews as part of its investigation,
but found no unlawful conduct,
city ofﬁcials said. The investigation followed a series of articles
See REPORT, Page A-12
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County volunteer ﬁre
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taxpayers millions
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Parents, students protest school
decision to open in cold
ing to National Weather Service
meteorologist Howard Silverman. Low temperatures early
Wednesday would be about 5,
but with winds lighter than Tuesday’s, he said. Highs Wednesday
will be in the mid- to upper 20s;
Tuesday’s high temperature hit
only the low teens.
Temperatures are forecast
to moderate further during the
week, with highs in the 50s expected this weekend.
Montgomery County on Tuesday implemented a hypothermia plan, said Mary Anderson, a
spokeswoman with the county’s
health and human services
Montgomery County Public Schools opened on time
Tuesday as the region faced record cold temperatures,
sparking concern and complaints from some parents,
students and others.
Many took to social media, sending Twitter messages
to Superintendent Joshua P. Starr and the school system
about their disappointment that school openings were
not delayed by the bitter temperatures.
The temperature in Gaithersburg dipped to 1 degree
Tuesday morning, according to Weatherbug observa-
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See PROTEST, Page A-15
BY
LINDSAY A. POWERS
STAFF WRITER
Forehand wants Maryland
to raise its smoking age to 21
District 17 lawmakers
preview 2014 session
in Rockville
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BY
ELIZABETH WAIBEL
STAFF WRITER
A Maryland lawmaker
wants people to wait until
they are older before they can
legally buy or smoke a pack of
cigarettes.
State Sen. Jennie M. Fore-
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said she plans to introduce a
bill this year to raise the legal
smoking age to 21.
Forehand spoke during a
Monday Rockville Mayor and
Council meeting. She and
other representatives for District 17, which includes Gaithersburg and Rockville, were
at the meeting to discuss the
2014 General Assembly session with city ofﬁcials.
Currently, the legal smoking age in Maryland is 18. Mi-
nors violating the law can be
ﬁned up to $25 for the ﬁrst violation and up to $100 for a second or subsequent violation,
according to the Maryland Attorney General website.
Forehand said she has
pushed for anti-smoking laws
because of her father, who
died of lung cancer brought
on by secondhand smoke. She
already has pre-ﬁled a bill for
this session that would pro-
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Rare snowy owl visits
Rockville pet store
A Montgomery County pet
store recently had an unusual visitor: a snowy owl, far more commonly seen on the tundra north of
the Arctic Circle in Canada than in
the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
Ruth Hanessian owns Animal
Exchange in Rockville, a pet store
that specializes in birds and small
mammals. A friend stopped by in
late December with a snowy owl
and a great horned owl, which were
being transported from an unsafe
area to a place where they could be
safely released, she said.
“They are gorgeous, they are
breathtaking, they are wonderful,”
Hanessian said of the snowy owls.
“They’re one of the most lovely
birds in the whole world. ... I was so
excited, I could hardly stand by the
time it was time to go.”
Snowy owls typically live far to
the north, in Canada or Alaska, but
sometimes travel farther south. Occasionally, an unusually large number of birds travels much farther
south, even into Maryland, in what
is known as an irruption.
Hanessian said scientists aren’t
quite sure why the birds are this far
south, although they may have had
an especially successful breeding
season or had competition for food
in Canada. Whatever the cause,
snowy owls have recently surprised
people who spotted them in Baltimore, the Washington, D.C., region
and Southern Maryland.
“This happens to be the year
for irruption of snowy owls, and
they’re ﬁnding them as far south,
I understand, as North Carolina,”
Hanessian said.
David Brinker, a regional ecologist with the Maryland Department
of Natural Resources, said this many
snowy owls probably have not been
seen in the area in 40 to 50 years.
“This year, we’re sort of up
to our armpits in them,” he said,
laughing. “That’s a relative term. In
Maryland, most years you never see
a snowy owl.”
Brinker started a website called
Project SNOWstorm with colleagues throughout the region to
track the owls’ migration. He said
scientists in the Arctic this year reported phenomenal reproductive
success among snowy owls. When
winter comes, adults stay up in
the Arctic and juveniles that can’t
compete with them for food start
moving south.
“They’re just ﬂooding into the
states here,” he said. “... This is a
huge natural history event.”
When the owls travel into more
densely populated areas, however,
they can run afoul of human inventions such as cars and airplanes,
which is why licensed trappers
sometimes catch and quickly relocate them to safer areas. Brinker
said airports routinely hire someone to trap raptors and relocate
them away from the airports.
Because snowy owls are from
the Arctic, Brinker said, they like
open spaces, such as some areas
around the Great Lakes and agricultural land.
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north to breed and hunt lemmings
on the tundra.
Even a brief visit from the birds
was a treat for Hanessian.
“It was such an opportunity to
see this magniﬁcent bird in a situation where it was being moved for
its own safety, where it was being
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Hanessian said that for her, the
visit was “one for the books.”
“How many pet stores have a
snowy owl sitting out in front?” she
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A snowy owl spreads its wings outside Animal Exchange, a pet store in Rockville. The
rare migratory visitor from the Arctic, part of what’s called an irruption — a sudden
increase in the population of a species — was on its way to be released in a safe
area.
Snowy owls sometimes sit on
the ground, Hanessian said, and
people mistake them for trash.
“The people who are ﬁnding
them think they are looking at a
plastic bag, then they realize they
are looking at a snowy owl,” she
said. “... Anybody who’s driving
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The owls’ sojourn in Maryland
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LOCAL
Council expected to issue order for Silver Spring land swap
Move will allow county’s
Progress Place Project
to proceed with ‘micro-units’
for the homeless
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BY
ALINE BARROS
STAFF WRITER
Montgomery County is expected to move forward with a
land swap that will net 42 small
apartments for the homeless in
a new building in Silver Spring.
The swap is part of the Progress Place Project, which will
have the current property on
Colonial Lane developed into a
high-rise residential building.
According to county offi-
that houses Shepherd’s Table
— a nonproﬁt that provides the
homeless and those in need with
basic services including meals,
social services, medical support and clothing — and Community Vision, which provides
support, advocacy, education
and training for the homeless in
the county to empower them to
achieve independence.
The services are based out
of a property on Colonial Lane
in Silver Spring. The county has
planned to move it to a location
about a block away behind Fire
Station 1 on Georgia Avenue in
Silver Spring.
The project was first
planned to be a three-story
building, but because the facil-
cials, the County Council will
issue an executive order of
declaration of surplus — allowing ofﬁcials to dispose public
property at a market value disposition — at a council session
Tuesday.
During a Silver Spring Advisory meeting on Dec. 9, Greg
Ossont, deputy director of the
county’s Department of General
Services, said the county is moving forward with the project.
“It is an exciting project. It
creates a lot of opportunities for
the Ripley district in between
railroad tracks and Georgia Avenue ... just south of the transit
center,” Ossont said.
Progress Place is a facility
owned by Montgomery County
“very small micro-units with
their own bathroom and shower
and small kitchenette,” according to Ossont.
County officials said the
lease term of these apartments
will be similar to that of a regular apartment building, and
they are single-occupant apartments.
The current facility on Colonial Lane does not have any living quarters.
The new facility will be
planned, designed and constructed by the developer,
which will relocate the current
facility at no cost to the county.
In return, the county would
transfer three properties that
make up the current site to the
ity could be built to ﬁve ﬂoors,
the Montgomery County Council had asked county ofﬁcials to
ﬁnd a way to add about 20 units
each on the fourth and fifth
ﬂoors, The request is projected
to cost about $10.2 million, according to a Dec. 3 county document.
“We’ve taken a lot of time
and a few steps back to evaluate
the need and evaluate the cost of
housing, and had a lot of conversations with the County Council
on this matter. We are happy to
move forward,” Ossont said.
The developer, Washington
Property Co. of Bethesda, would
replace the actual building with
a new facility, which would add
42 personal living quarters,
developer.
The three properties — 1014
Ripley St., 8206 Colonial Lane
and 8210 Colonial Lane — are
valued at about $11 million, according to a county memo. The
base building estimate for the
new three-story facility is about
$13.5 million.
“We are going to pay for that
residential [part] and developers
are going to pay for the new facility,” Ossont said.
According to ofﬁcials, property negotiations are underway, but they confirmed that
Washington Property Co. plans
to build a high-rise residential
building.
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Bethesda woman’s company delivers organic baby food
For each jar sold, Baby SLOP
donates one to a local food bank
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BY
ADRIA
KENNIER
SARAH SCULLY
n Age: 38
STAFF WRITER
n Position:
Founder
Adria Kinnier of Bethesda has always
fed her kids “grown-up food” — when they
were babies she often would puree whatever she and her husband, Alex, were eating.
They got used to vegetables, herbs and
spices, and when at 18 months her son
Carter ate all his brussels sprouts and ignored the pizza on his plate, she knew she
was onto something.
So she started Baby SLOP with this idea
in mind, to help other parents ﬁghting with
their children to get them to eat vegetables
at the dinner table. SLOP stands for seasonal, local, organic puree.
“If there were more adult ﬂavors available in baby food, that would just be nonexistent for other parents,” Kinnier said.
She also was wary of store-bought baby
food that was older than her child.
The company launched in September,
delivering products for children 6 to 12
months. Kinnier buys, cooks, packages and
delivers the fresh baby food herself, working
out of a commercial kitchen in Bethesda.
She offers purees such as red lentils with
purple kale, garlic and ﬁre-free curry, and
rutabaga with caramelized shallots, all organic. Beets are one vegetable she’s found
surprisingly popular among babies. She
suspects they like the beets’ vibrant colors.
Many parents, she ﬁnds, are excited
by the idea of feeding their young children
fresh organic produce, but enthusiasm
doesn’t necessarily translate into time and
energy to make baby food at home.
“I think a lot of parents like the convenience of getting the freshest local food to
their babies,” Kinnier said. She delivers all
over the Washington metropolitan area,
mostly inside the Capital Beltway, and she’s
found a lot of parents like having the SLOP
n Professional
Afﬁliations:
Think Local First
D.C. business
member
n Education:
B.S., biology,
Lafayette College
n Family: Husband
Alex, daughter
Claire, 6, and
son Carter, 4
n Activities away
from work:
Crossﬁt, playing
tennis, spending
time outside
with Claire
and Carter,
and trying new
restaurants
PHOTO FROM ADRIA KINNIER
“I think there’s something very human about eating what’s available when it’s available,” says Baby SLOP founder Adria Kinnier, with her daughter, Claire.
delivered to their downtown ofﬁce buildings.
This winter could pose a challenge,
when there are fewer seasonal vegetables
available. She might order vegetables from
small organic growers in California, where
her family lived before moving to Bethesda
in 2012.
But Kinnier plans to use what local
farms can grow and store and get creative
with mixing in different spices and grains
for variety.
“I think there’s something very human
about eating what’s available when it’s
available,” she said.
She gets most of her produce from
three organic farms on the Eastern Shore
of Maryland and in Pennsylvania that visit
the Bethesda farmers market. So far she has
stuck to vegetables, as there are fewer local
organic fruit growers in the area.
Baby SLOP also delivers its puree in
reusable BPA-free jars. It’s available in
two types — purees for 6- to 8-monthold children and chewier blends for 8- to
12-month-olds.
Twice-a-week deliveries include three
4-ounce jars of purees, six total, for $30; for
the blends, customers receive six jars, 12 total, at $60 per week.
For every jar of baby food the company
sells, it donates a jar to a local food bank to
mitigate food insecurity and help more babies in the area access healthful food.
Kinnier ﬁnds her customers “like slowing down the food process,” she said. “I
think it gives them a sense of comfort” to
know where the food is coming from.
“It’s really great to see how the D.C.
area is moving toward slower food,” Kinnier
said. “I ﬁnd it very exciting to see that wave
of people appreciating the local farms who
are working hard to grow things here.”
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n Last book
read: “David
and Goliath:
Underdogs,
Misﬁts, and the
Art of Battling
Giants,” by
Malcolm Gladwell
n Best business
advice received:
From her
husband, Alex:
“He’s always
advised me not
to be afraid to
fail and when you
do fail, fail fast
and keep going.”
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Teen collapses, dies while playing indoor soccer game
14-year-old boy was eighth-grader at
St. Bartholomew School in Bethesda
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BY KRISTA BRICK
STAFF WRITER
A 14-year-old boy died Sunday after collapsing during a game of futsal at the Germantown
Boys and Girls Club.
Santiago Vesperoni was an eighth-grader at
St. Bartholomew School in Bethesda, according
to Principal Stephen C. Lamont.
Julio Zarate, president of the Pachuca Club de
Futbol USA, had been watching the game of futsal — a ﬁve-sided indoor soccer game played on
a hard surface — between the teen’s team and the
Olney Boys and Girls Club Galaxy U14 girls team.
Zarate said he had been asked to attend the game
by the teen’s team to determine if the boys team
should play for his club.
Zarate said the teen collapsed on the gym
ﬂoor during the 1 p.m. game.
He said that he tried to help the teen and
that another parent performed CPR, but the boy
was unresponsive. Other parents inside the gym
called 911, he said.
Assistant Chief Scott Graham of the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service conﬁrmed that a 14-year-old was transported from
the club at 19910 Frederick Road to a local hospital in serious condition on Sunday.
The boy’s cause of death was not known.
The Montgomery County Police Major
Crimes Division is investigating, which is standard procedure in a death, police spokeswoman
Angela Cruz said Monday.
“This is a time to go hug and kiss your kid,”
Zarate said.”Make them feel they are loved. I cannot imagine the mom getting the call that her kid
is in the emergency room.”
Zarate said he plans to urge parents on his
Nine seek council
seat in District 5
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Deadline for applications
is Wednesday
BY
RYAN MARSHALL
STAFF WRITER
The list of applicants who
have submitted their names
to be appointed to Montgomery County’s vacant District 5
council seat has reached nine
people two days before the
deadline for applicants.
Five people have sent in
their applications to ﬁll the seat
formerly held by Valerie Ervin
in the past week, providing the
current members of the council plenty of choices when they
make their decision.
The deadline for applications is Wednesday and the
council plans to make a decision by Jan. 31.
Applicants Takoma Park
City Councilman Timothy Male
and Alan Bowser, Cherri Branson, Ronald Galvin Jr. and Andrew Kleine, all of Silver Spring,
have joined Jeanette Dixon and
Harold McDougall of Silver
Spring, Arthur H. Jackson of
Takoma Park and Daniel Wilhelm of Colesville in applying
to replace Ervin.
Ervin resigned her seat Jan.
3 to become executive director
of the Working Families Coalition, a nonproﬁt advocacy organization based in New York
City.
Branson, who serves as
chief counsel for the ranking
member of the U.S. House
of Representatives Oversight Committee on Homeland Security, Rep. Bennie
Thompson (D-Miss.), said
she believes her experience in
more than 24 years as a congressional aide would help
her get started quickly on the
council.
She’s seen the legislative
process work well and not so
well, and has come to understand the importance of being
able to make compromises to
get something accomplished,
she said.
The County Council appointed Branson to Montgomery’s Charter Review
Commission and Commission
on Redistricting. Branson said
she sees the council opening
as another chance to serve the
county.
Galvin is the executive director of IMPACT Silver Spring,
an organization dedicated to
bringing people together across
various lines to form relationships.
Galvin said he decided
to pursue the appointment
because he believes he has a
strong perspective on issues of
equity in the county, particularly for people who are struggling.
Galvin has a master of divinity degree from Emory Uni-
soccer teams to make sure their children have
up-to-date physical exams and that medical information is made available to coaches.
Emily Janss, coach for the Olney girls team,
agreed, saying that the club soccer organizations
need to be better prepared for emergency medical situations.
“This tragedy is deﬁnitely a wake up call for all
of us,” she wrote in an email to The Gazette. “We
as coaches need to make sure our parents inform
us of allergies, medical history, ect so that we are
equipped with knowledge on how to handle these
emergency situations with our kids.”
Perhaps baseline EKGs, which test heart activity, should be part of an athlete’s exam to be
sure there are no hidden conditions, Zarate said.
“You may not ever be able to prevent something like this but I never believe someone should
die in vain,” he said.
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Rockville Science Center
seeks volunteers
The Rockville Science Center needs volunteers for several upcoming events, including a
Lego League robotics competition Sunday and
a Tech Challenge robotics competition Jan. 25.
Judges also are needed for the Montgomery
County Science Fair March 15.
Students can receive student service learning hours for taking on a number of volunteer
positions. For more information about the science center or volunteer opportunities, email
info@rockvillesciencecenter.org or call 240-3868111.
Extra time for comments
on police station art
Those who haven’t yet gotten around to looking at the art proposals for Rockville’s new police
station have some extra time.
The city has extended the comment period
for art planned to go on the facade of the downtown station.
The public can view and comment on proposals from four ﬁnalist artists at rockvillemd.
gov. Comments should be submitted by 5 p.m.
Jan. 17.
The mayor and council are expected to discuss which of the four artists gets the contract in
February, according to a city news release.
County libraries offer
new online services
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versity in Atlanta, and said that
although IMPACT Silver Spring
is a non-religious and nonsectarian organization, his degree affected the way he views
things.
Divinity school gave him a
“clariﬁed eye” toward people
who are struggling and an obligation to create systems to help
them, he said.
Having a theological world
view has helped him see “how
systems work for and against
people,” Galvin said.
Kleine works as the budget
director for Baltimore city, and
said that while Baltimore and
Montgomery County are very
different, he thinks his experience has given him some skills
he could transfer to a seat on
the council.
Both jurisdictions have
had to weather nearly unprecedented fiscal challenges in
recent years, and also provide
many of the same types of services, Kleine said.
He said he would be able to
ask the right questions and help
ﬁnd solutions in areas such as
the efﬁciency of government
operations and revenue structure.
Kleine has also worked as
a budget analyst for the U.S.
Department of Transportation and a staff member for
the House of Representatives’
Committee on Transportation
and Infrastructure.
He’s the former treasurer
for Casa of Maryland, and has
served on the Long Branch
Advisory Committee and the
Indian Spring Citizens Association.
The council has indicated it
is looking to appoint someone
who will not run for a full term
in 2014, and Branson, Galvin
and Kleine all said they have no
interest in serving beyond the
length of the appointment.
Bowser and Male could not
be reached for comment Monday.
Bowser, an attorney,
served as chief of staff to former Councilwoman Duchy
Trachtenberg, according to the
resume he submitted to the
council.
He has also served on the
Silver Spring Citizens Advisory
Board and the Silver Spring Arts
and Entertainment Committee,
among other positions.
Male has worked for a variety of environmental groups,
including Defenders of Wildlife and the National Fish and
Wildlife Foundation.
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Donna Butts of Takoma Park (second from right) and other women work out as
Kimberly James of KJ Total Fitness leads a group during a demonstration of the
Ladies Boot Camp program during the ﬁtness exposition Saturday at the Takoma
Park Recreation Center. Beginner, eight-week sessions are at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays
and Thursdays, with an advanced session at 10:30 a.m. Saturdays.
Residents weigh in on proposed
changes to school starting times
Elementary parents, staff call
for more attention to impacts
on younger students
n
BY
SARAH SCULLY
STAFF WRITER
On Monday night, Montgomery
County Public Schools ofﬁcials heard
from parents, students and school
staff in the third forum on proposed
changes to school start and end times
that would make high school start
times later and extend elementary
school days by 30 minutes.
There is one more public forum
on the topic scheduled for Feb. 10 at
Montgomery Blair High School, at 51
University Blvd. in Silver Spring.
The cafeteria at Seneca Valley High
School in Germantown was full of
community members eager to support
or oppose the plans. Schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr made the recommendations largely based on teens’
need for sleep and ﬁndings by a Montgomery County Public Schools working
group on bell times that showed high
school students could benefit from
later start times.
The recommendations are to push
back high school bell times by 50 minutes, with the school day beginning at
8:15 a.m., instead of 7:25 a.m. Middle
schools would start ten minutes earlier
at 7:45 a.m., and elementary schools
would start at the same times (8:50 a.m.
or 9:15 a.m.), but run 30 minutes longer
(ending at 3:35 p.m. or 4 p.m.).
Most opponents expressed concerns over days being too long for elementary school students, and high
school students’ days ending too late.
Parents Erik and Claudia Phelps,
whose son is in 10th grade, insisted,
“the bottom line is teenagers need
more sleep.” Evidence from the working group supports their belief that
most teenagers have a difﬁcult time
falling asleep before 11 p.m.
The group’s report cited studies
showing how lack of sleep negatively
impacts learning, attentiveness, motivation, mood and physical and mental health. While studies suggest teens
need 8.5 to 9.5 hours of sleep, most get
an average of 7.6 hours each night nationwide.
Several high school students at
the forum said that later start times
wouldn’t mean more sleep, but rather
that students will just stay up later.
Excessive homework and overpacked
schedules seemed to be the real source
of sleep deprivation.
Maria Garcia, a high school English
as a Second Language counselor, said
she works with many students from
immigrant families who work at night
with their families. She thinks the time
change could help them graduate.
“It’s a miracle they’re in school, but
they’re very tired,” she said.
In a survey by the school system’s
working group, 69 percent of high
school students and parents said they
would prefer that school start later.
For elementary school, parents and
staff said they didn’t think young children could manage an extra 30 minutes in their day. Some said children
could get home as late as 5 p.m. on the
bus if school lets out at 4 p.m., and by
then it is dark in the winter.
Lake Seneca Elementary School
Counselor Jennifer Jones said later dismissal times would cut into teachers’
time at the end of the day to meet and
collaborate. And staying at school later
would make it difﬁcult for the many
teachers who go to second jobs in the
evening.
“They’re so worried about the
teenagers’ sleep to the neglect of the
elementary school students’ needs,”
Jones said.
sscully@gazette.net
Montgomery County Public Libraries has
launched three new online services: Zinio for
Libraries, 3M Cloud Library e-book lending system and Learn4Life.
Zinio, the world’s largest digital newsstand,
is designed for public library users, according
to a news release. The service digitally recreates, page-by-page, full-color magazines with
interactive elements such as audio and video,
intuitive navigation and keyword article search.
Registered patrons may view 100 magazine
titles, check out as many as they want and keep
the magazines in their personal reading list for
as long as they choose, with no due dates or the
need to wait for a magazine to be returned by
another reader.
The 3M Cloud Library e-book lending
system offers titles from major publishers Hachette Book Group, Harper Collins, MacMillan,
Penguin Group, Random House and Simon
& Schuster. Patrons can check out and read
books, and browse the digital bookshelf from
any location. The e-books are compatible with
desktop computers, plus some tablets, smartphones and 3M e-readers.
The Learn4Life program provides free online courses and career training programs, including the following:
• Courses that offer special credits or certiﬁcates, such as health care certiﬁcates.
• Academic courses, such as college readiness math and science.
• Career training courses, such as business
fundamentals.
• Preparation courses for tests such as SAT/
ACT and GRE.
• Courses such as event planning.
“New 21st century technologies are allowing us to offer residents more services in our
branches and beyond our walls,” library Director Parker Hamiltion said. “It’s really cool and a
smart way to deliver important resources.”
More information about these services is
available at any library branch and at montgomerycountymd.gov/library.
Public forums on county
budget scheduled
Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett
will hold a forum on the county’s ﬁscal 2015
operating budget at 7 p.m. Monday at the
Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center, 4805 Edgemoor Lane, Bethesda.
The forum, one of several planned this
month, gives “residents an opportunity to tell
me what’s important to them as I prepare next
year’s operating budget for submission to the
County Council on March 17,” Leggett said in a
news release.
The other downcounty forums, all at 7 p.m.:
• Jan. 16, Eastern Montgomery Regional Services Center, 3300 Briggs Chaney Road, Silver
Spring.
• Jan, 27, Mid-County Community Recreation Center, 2004 Queensguard Road, Silver
Spring.
• Jan. 29, Silver Spring Civic Building, 1 Veterans Place.
Sign language interpreter services will be
provided upon request with notice as far in advance as possible, but no less than 72 hours before the forum. For these or other services, call
240-777-6507, TTY 240-777-6505 or email karen.
falcon@montgomerycountymd.gov.
The County Council is scheduled to approve
the operating budget at the end of May.
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White Oak master plan updates may speed up development
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Planning board removes
some limits in process
BY
SARAH SCULLY
STAFF WRITER
Planning ofﬁcials want to remove
certain limitations to future development in the White Oak area by amending the White Oak Science Gateway
Master Plan.
According to Nancy Sturgeon, the
master planner supervisor for the area,
changes to the plan will allow slightly
more trafﬁc and remove a staging policy that slows down development by
dividing projects into three stages of
approvals and requirements.
The Montgomery County Planning
Board approved the changes on Dec.
19.
Next, the County Council will review the amended plan before ﬁnalizing it in the coming months. The
council has scheduled a public hearing
for Feb. 4.
The recommended plan makes
White Oak a new policy area with urban congestion standards, which allow
a higher volume of trafﬁc.
Previously, the area was part of a
larger policy area considered suburban.
Development projections for White
Oak were expected to outgrow suburban trafﬁc standards.
With the new classification, and
removal of the staging policy, the Planning Department aims to prioritize development by removing pre-emptive
limitations.
“We’re trying to stimulate new development in White Oak,” Sturgeon
said. “The concern was the staging plan
was going to be a disincentive and was
going to limit something that we actually wanted to see.”
The staging policy slowed down
development by breaking projects into
three phases, allowing only certain
steps in each phase, and requiring in-
frastructure and transportation capacity to keep up with development at a
certain standard.
The amended plan “doesn’t put a
cap on the amount of development that
can occur within any given time frame,”
Sturgeon said.
Staging policies can protect a community from growth outstripping capacity, Sturgeon said. However, all new
projects still will go through the regulatory review process, which includes
trafﬁc and capacity studies, prior to approval.
Future Bus Rapid Transit, an improved bus system planned throughout the county, also will help to provide
more transportation.
Potential construction that has
been discussed for the area includes a
new campus for Washington Adventist
Hospital and a new county Life Sciences Center.
The urban classification doesn’t
necessarily mean more trafﬁc; Sturgeon
emphasized that real future development is unknown. Recommended congestion limitations don’t meet those of
the busiest areas in the county, but fall
in line with areas like Wheaton, Kensington and Germantown Town Center.
The County Council likely will make
a ﬁnal decision in February or March,
according to council staff.
D.C. woman accused in tiki-torch attack Police searching for team behind
on pregnant Takoma Park resident
North Bethesda jewelry theft
Police say Katherlan Johnson
forced her way into apartment
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BY
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ST. JOHN BARNED-SMITH
BY
STAFF WRITER
Police say a Washington, D.C., woman took
a taxi to a Takoma Park home last week and used
a broken tiki torch to attack two people, including a woman who was seven months pregnant.
Takoma Park police announced Thursday
that the Metropolitan Police Department had
arrested Katherlan Johnson, 46, in Washington
on a warrant from the Takoma Park department.
Johnson was charged with ﬁrst-degree burglary, second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and malicious destruction of property.
According to Takoma Park police spokeswoman Cathy Plevy, Katherlan knew the man
and woman she is accused of assaulting, but
Plevy did not know the nature of their relationship.
Johnson took a taxi to the Flower Avenue
home, which is owned by a man she knew, and
knocked on the door “very loudly,” Plevy said.
A woman inside didn’t answer the door, so
Johnson walked to the back of the home and
forced her way in through a space she had created by pushing in an air conditioning unit.
Johnson attacked the woman inside, using a
broken tiki torch to hit the woman in the stomach, according to police. The man in the house
also got involved in the argument, trying to defend the woman Johnson was attacking.
Two stolen rings worth
more than $20,000
ST. JOHN BARNED-SMITH
STAFF WRITER
TAKOMA PARK POLICE
Police say Katherlan Johnson attacked a woman.
Plevy said Johnson stabbed the man with an
“unknown sharp object,” then ﬂed in a taxi.
The man was taken to a hospital and required surgery, but was doing well and recovering.
“He’s going to be ﬁne,” Plevy said.
No other information about his condition
was available on Tuesday.
Takoma Park police said Johnson will be
charged in Montgomery County District Court
after she is extradited from D.C.
D.C. court records show she has a hearing
scheduled for Thursday.
Sharon Burka, who is listed as Johnson’s
lawyer in D.C. court records online, did not return phone calls seeking more information.
Police are trying to identify a couple who walked into a North Bethesda
jewelry store last month and swiped
two rings worth more than $20,000.
The theft took place at about 2:10
p.m. Dec. 16. Police say a man and
woman walked into a Masica Diamonds store on Rockville Pike. The
woman posed as a customer, distracting the store’s employee. The
man stole two diamond rings from a
display case.
Police say the combined value of
the rings is more than $20,000. They
are asking anyone with information
about the thefts to call 866-411-8477.
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Montgomery County police say they are looking for two people who
they believe stole two rings valued at more than $20,000 from a North
Bethesda jewelry store.
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Education, training cited for increased alcohol compliance rates
Fewer county businesses
serving minors in ���scal ’14
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BY
RYAN MARSHALL
STAFF WRITER
An increased effort to educate and provide resources to
bars and restaurants likely is
one reason fewer Montgomery
County businesses seem to be
selling alcohol to minors, according to county ofﬁcials.
Random checks in the ﬁrst
half of ﬁscal 2014 showed a compliance rate of 81 percent, up
from 72 percent in ﬁscal 2013,
according to the county.
While the county wants 100
percent compliance, 80 percent
generally is considered about
the norm, said Kathie Durbin,
division chief for the county’s
Department of Liquor Control.
“It’s a step in the right direction,” Durbin said.
When department officials saw the 72 percent ﬁgure,
they knew they had to step up
education for business owners,
Durbin said.
A big part of that was making sure businesses train and
remind their staff to check customers’ identiﬁcation.
Durbin said most businesses
that fail compliance checks just
don’t check IDs, rather than
willfully selling to people they
know are underage.
She said she tended bar in
college and her husband is a
caterer, so she understands the
challenges of training staff in an
industry with high turnover.
But the department encourages businesses to take the time
to train their staff.
“There’s a lot of businesses
out there that seem to get it,”
Durbin said.
Training staff on what to
look for is essential, said Debbie Lea, a manager at McGinty’s
Public House in Silver Spring.
She said her staff is trained
to card anyone who appears to
be younger than 25 years old.
“We constantly check IDs,”
Lea said.
They also keep a book provided by the Department of Liquor Control behind the bar that
contains pictures of all 50 state
driver’s licenses to provide an
easy reference for staff to doublecheck an ID they’re unsure of.
McGinty’s also brings in
people at least once a year to
train the staff on what to look for
on IDs, and has door staff checking IDs as people enter on Friday
and Saturday nights, Lea said.
The department has done
lots of education in recent years,
but has probably done more in
the past year, said Emily DeTitta,
manager of licensing and outreach for the department.
It provides a three-hour
training course for businesses
that includes an introduction
to the Department of Liquor
Control, state and county regulations for alcohol sales, best
practices and training on how to
read IDs and identify fake ones.
The department also does a
“mystery shopper” program, in
which people around the ages
of 23 to 25 are sent into bars and
restaurants to order a drink and
see if their IDs are checked, DeTitta said.
Establishments are sent letters telling them the name of
their mystery shopper, but not
when they will come in. If the establishment ﬁnds the shopper, it
can win incentives.
In the first round of the
program, 17 of 40 businesses
identiﬁed the mystery shopper,
DeTitta said.
The department also has
gotten grant funding for items
such as black-light pens for
bouncers and doormen, as well
as the books with state IDs, such
as the ones used at McGinty’s.
“Anything we can do to reinforce or send a message,” DeTitta said.
Delegation backs $10.10 minimum wage More voters sue state
over legislative map
All but a few state
delegates have signed
letter of support
n
BY
KATE S. ALEXANDER
STAFF WRITER
The majority of Montgomery County’s state delegation
has backed a bill to raise the
statewide minimum wage to
$10.10 per hour by 2016.
All eight senators and all
but a few of the county’s 24
delegates signed a letter supporting the bill, Sen. Jamin B.
Raskin (D-Dist. 20) of Takoma
Park said.
The sign-on letter details
support for raising the wage to
$10.10 by 2016 as well as indexing the future minimum wage
to the rate of inﬂation to keep
pace with the cost of living and
raising the minimum wage for
tipped workers from 50 to 70
percent of the minimum wage.
“Maryland is a great place
to live, but it’s expensive to live
here,” Raskin said. “We have to
lift up the people who are struggling to make ends meet at the
bottom of the income ladder.”
Maryland now follows the
federal minimum wage of $7.25
per hour.
As Montgomery lines up
behind raising wages to $10.10
per hour, Baltimore City Del.
Keith E. Haynes (D-Dist. 44) has
pre-ﬁled competing legislation
in the House to raise the wage
to $12.50 per hour.
Haynes’ bill does not detail
a provision to index the future
wage or a provision to increase
wages for tipped workers.
While Raskin said it is great
that lawmakers are floating
other proposals, the tipped
worker wage is key for him.
He also said $10.10 is not an
opening statement for bargaining the minimum wage.
Locally, minimum wages
are on the rise.
Montgomery and Prince
George’s counties both passed
laws in late 2013 to raise their
local wages to $11.50 per hour
by 2017.
But labor and county ofﬁcials have claimed efforts are
underway in Annapolis to override those wage increases.
Raskin said he will resist
any such effort.
“I’m confident that the
Senate would not accept any
attempt to override county
minimum wage increases,” he
said.
As lawmakers prepare to
return to Annapolis for the 2014
session, the Attorney General’s
Ofﬁce is drafting a letter of advice that would explain the legal
issues surrounding the minimum wage, said spokesman
Alan Brody.
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Court action claims
‘ribbons’ of districts
violate Constitution
n
BY
KATE S. ALEXANDER
STAFF WRITER
Yet another challenge to
Maryland’s latest congressional
redistricting is pending in federal court.
Led by Bethesda engineer
Stephen M. Shapiro, three residents have sued Bobbie S. Mack,
chairman of the Maryland State
Board of Elections, claiming
the new map violates citizens’
federal right to representation
by using small “ribbons” of the
state to connect two very different areas into one district.
“We contend that the essentially non-contiguous structure
and discordant composition
of the separate distinct pieces
comprising the 4th, 6th, 7th, and
8th Congressional districts impermissibly abridge our rights,
and those of similarly situated
Marylanders, of representation
as protected by Article 1 Section
2 of the U.S. Constitution; our
right to vote for our Representatives to Congress, as protected
by both the first and second
clauses to the 14th Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution; and our
First Amendment rights of political association,” the complaint
alleged.
The redistricting drew portions of Carroll and Frederick
counties into District 8, which is
represented by U.S. Rep. Christopher Van Hollen Jr. (D) of
Kensington.
Shapiro said the map has
diminished representation for
everyone in these districts and
questioned the extent to which
the state is unduly inﬂuencing
the decision of who the representatives in Congress will be.
“It is particularly unfair to
folks in the smaller sections,” he
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Judge orders sexual assault
suspect held without bond
Poindexter represents
‘a clear and present
danger’ to the public,
judge says
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BY
DAN MORSE
THE WASHINGTON POST
A 39-year-old sexual assault
suspect who police say preyed
on young men at local beerpong tournaments was ordered
held without bond Friday as a
Montgomery County prosecutor indicated there may be dozens of victims in the case.
Joey Poindexter represents
“a clear and present danger”
to the public, Circuit Judge
Richard E. Jordan said from the
bench, basing part of his ruling on a review of photographs
and a video recording found
on Poindexter’s mobile phone.
The images showed Poindexter
having sex with men who police say were impaired by alcohol, drugs or both.
The judge said that at least
some of the images showed
men who appeared unconscious or unaware of what
was happening. Jordan spoke
in particular about a threeminute video with images of a
young man.
“He appeared — clearly to
the court — to be not in control
of himself, and not in a position
to make a voluntary decision to
engage in sexual conduct,” Jordan said.
Police have been building
their case against Poindexter, a real estate appraiser, for
months. They arrested him last
fall on one count of seconddegree sex offense after a man
came forward with a startling
story: He said he had met Poindexter at a beer-pong tournament at a bar in College Park.
In beer pong, contestants
try to toss table tennis balls
into cups partially ﬁlled with
water or beer, and opponents
must then drink the contents.
The man told police that after
leaving the bar, he ended up at
Poindexter’s house, wasn’t really sure what happened, and
woke up on a sofa. He believed
that he had been sexually assaulted.
Detectives later obtained
Poindexter’s phone, which led
them to believe that he had been
taking images of men he had
sexually assaulted. In October,
a judge ordered Poindexter held
in jail on $500,000 bond. But
since then, police and prosecutors have not come forward with
charges related to other victims.
That prompted Poindexter’s attorney, Rebecca A. Nitkin, to ﬁle a motion asking that
her client’s original $50,000
bond be reinstated, which set
up Friday’s hearing.
In court, Nitkin said that
the sex may have been consensual. She noted that the original
alleged victim asked Poindexter
for a ride home after spending the night at his home. “He
doesn’t have a fear of Mr. Poindexter or he wouldn’t have
given him his address,” Nitkin
said. “So I don’t know where
this gigantic fear in society is.”
But prosecutor Patrick
Mays said the investigation of
Poindexter is ongoing and he
is a threat. He brought a laptop
computer to the judge’s bench
to display the images from
Poindexter’s phone. While the
images could not be seen by
others in court, at one point
sound from a video was clearly
audible and a man’s slurred
voice could be heard several
times saying “stop.”
Mays said the expressions
of other men in photographs
are telling. “It is clear from the
facial shots of all the individuals — and there are dozens
of them that are portrayed in
those photos — are unconscious, that they’re unwilling
participants,” Mays said.
Nitkin questioned why
more victims hadn’t stepped
forward, saying that suggested
consensual sex.
Jordan offered a possible
explanation. He stressed that
lifestyle had nothing to do with
the seriousness or lack of seriousness of the charges other
than it could play a role in victims talking about the case.
“It is difﬁcult for victims of
sexual offenses to come forward,” he said. “It is particularly more difﬁcult when it’s
male-on-male.”
In the end, the judge ordered that Poindexter’s $500,000
bond be revoked and that he be
held on no-bond status.
After 36 years in Annapolis, state Sen. Jennie Forehand of Rockville says she will not seek re-election.
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Forehand will not run again this year
Longtime lawmaker
will end career after nine
terms in General Assembly
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BY
KATE S. ALEXANDER
STAFF WRITER
One of the Maryland General Assembly’s longest-serving
members, Sen. Jennie M. Forehand of Rockville, said this year
will be her last as a lawmaker.
After 36 years as a lawmaker,
Forehand (D-Dist. 17) will not
run for re-election in 2014.
“I really have gotten so many
really good things done and I really felt like maybe it was time,”
she said Friday morning.
Forehand, 78, served in the
House of Delegates from 1978 to
1994, according to state records.
She has represented District 17
in the Senate since 1995.
While she initially planned
to wait to announce that she
would not seek re-election,
Forehand said others entering
the race for her seat prompted
her to make her plans known.
Del. Luiz R.S. Simmons and
former Del. Cheryl Kagan are
both running for Forehand’s
seat.
Kagan — who ran against
Forehand in 2010 and lost —
said in a statement that Forehand has set an example of
service that all who aspire to
public ofﬁce should admire.
“I salute Jennie for her remarkable career in public ofﬁce and congratulate her on her
many accomplishments,” Kagan
said. “Jennie is a true trailblazer,
and we owe her our gratitude.”
Simmons (D), who has
served with Forehand in District
17, also lauded her service.
“Even though we may have
different perspectives on different issues, I have always had a
lot of affection for her,” he said.
Forehand said she will serve
the remainder of her current term.
“I ﬁgure I’ve got something
really good for this year,” she
said. Among the bills she has
pre-ﬁled for the session, which
starts Wednesday, are a bill to
prohibit smoking in a vehicle
with a young child and a bill
that would broaden the ages
protected against felony human
trafﬁcking from just minors to
age 21 and younger.
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Ana Cruz Mosquera of Buckingham Twp.,
PA, passed away on Wednesday, January 1,
2014, at her residence surrounded by her
family. She was 93 years old.
Ana was born in Popayan, Colombia. In
nearby Cali, she worked as the “coffee lady”
at a Quaker Oats factory, owned her own
home, and raised eight children.
She
immigrated to the United States in 1979,
living and working in Bethesda, MD, where
she was employed as a playground aide at Ashburton Elementary
School and universally known as “Grandma Ana.” Ana moved to
Buckingham in 2011 to live with her daughter and son-in-law, Celia
and Mark Sharp. She attended mass at local catholic churches and
enjoyed spending time with her family and friends.
Ana was the beloved wife of the late Alcides Arce, devoted mother
of Celia Sharp and husband Mark, Amparo Giron de Gil and
husband Cesar, Humberto Giron Mosquera and wife Janneth, Pedro
Pablo Giron Mosquera and wife Gladys, Consuelo Gochez and
husband Balmore, Carmina Freire, and the late Diego Arce
Mosquera and Rocio Arce Mosquera. She was the dear sister of the
late Leonardo Mosquera and Alejandrina Mosquera, and also
survived by 19 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Internment of cremated remains will be held at Gate of Heaven
Cemetery, 13801 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, 20906 on
Saturday, February 1, 2014 at 2pm. Cremation services were private
under the direction of the Varcoe-Thomas Funeral Home,
Doylestown, PA..
In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts would be appreciated to Our Lady
of Mount Carmel Church, ATTN: St. Vincent DePaul Society, 235
E. State Street, Doylestown, PA, 18901.
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County’s top prosecutor seeks third term in ’14
McCarthy touts
successes in cutting
down gang and
domestic violence
n
BY ST. JOHN
BARNED-SMITH
STAFF WRITER
John J. McCarthy’s Montgomery County roots run deep.
He began working as a county
prosecutor here 31 years ago,
moved into his home in Rockville 21 years ago, and began
serving as the county’s top prosecutor eight years ago.
He is running next year to
serve a third term as Montgomery County’s top prosecutor.
The position pays $199,000,
a county ofﬁcial said, but that
ﬁgure will rise to about $203,000
in 2014.
“I love the job,” said McCar-
thy, a Democrat who ruled out
a run for state attorney general.
Reflecting on his last two
terms in ofﬁce, McCarthy said,
“I think we put into place exactly
what we campaigned on, and told
the community what we would
do when I ran the ﬁrst time.”
One example, he said, is
combatting gang violence.
McCarthy said his ofﬁce and
other county agencies also have
worked hard against domestic
violence, with initiatives like the
Family Justice Center, the county’s interagency organization for
victims.
“I think we have made a
signiﬁcant improvement in the
number of homicides,” he said,
recalling 2010, when the county
did not have any domestic violence-related homicides.
There were four domestic
violence-related homicides in
2011, ﬁve in 2012 and one in
2013, according to state’s attor-
ney’s ofﬁce spokesman Ramon
Korionoff.
“My objective would be to
have zeroes come up in many
categories again and again,” he
said.
McCarthy said his ofﬁce has
focused on youths and schools.
“I think the foremost thing
you can do fighting crime in
any community is public education,” he said, citing work in
county schools and with senior
citizens.
One example, he said, was
programs such as Truancy
Court, an anti-truancy program
the state attorney’s ofﬁce runs in
six schools around the county.
Fighting crime through
public education — and keeping kids in school — is an area
he wants to keep working on if
elected to a third term, he said.
“I think if we expand to serve
a greater number of kids,” he said,
“I think we will reduce crime and
McCarthy
other related behaviors that put
kids at risk, which would make
for a safer community.”
McCarthy said his ofﬁce has
tried to protect children from
threats online through Internet
safety training. Anonymous online crimes are harder to prosecute, so education is important,
he said.
McCarthy wants to see judicial resources used more effectively on issues such as how
ofﬁcials decide whether someone who is arrested and charged
with a crime needs to stay in jail
before trial or how public safety
and state ofﬁcials deal with drug
cases stemming from marijuana.
“We’ve been dealing with
[marijuana] as a health education issue for a decade in Montgomery County ... because that’s
the reality how we’re dealing
with it. Should it be decriminalized and be a ﬁne civilly and
then put into education? I think
that’s a conversation we should
be having,” he said.
As of Tuesday, McCarthy
was unopposed.
McCarthy and the other
candidates for courthouse ofﬁces, such as register of wills,
sheriff and clerk of courts, have
held one joint fundraiser so far,
he said. His campaign currently
has about $80,000 cash on hand.
He said he expects to hold
another fundraiser in late January or February and raise about
$100,000 by the general election
next November, he said.
The primary will be held in
June 2014.
When he isn’t working,
McCarthy, 61, a father of four,
works out and plays basketball
at Montgomery County’s Public Safety Academy. His ofﬁce
is decked with trophies, photos
and hats from various sports
teams.
And he carves out time to
watch his son, Matt, play basketball.
“You can have me 24 hours a
day, seven days a week, 365 days
a year, but four hours a week,
you can’t have me,” he said with
a laugh.
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Docca running for third term on school board
Former educator focused
on success of black and
Hispanic students
n
BY
LINDSAY A. POWERS
STAFF WRITER
Judith Docca said she will
seek a third term on the Montgomery County school board
this year with the school system’s African-American and
Hispanic students in mind.
“I’ve said before, I’m most
concerned about the academic
atmosphere for these students
and I still am,” she said.
Docca, 74, a resident of
Montgomery Village, plans to
run for re-election as the school
board’s District 1 representative,
offering her range of experience
within the school system.
Docca’s fellow school board
members, District 5 representative Michael A. Durso and District 3 representative Patricia
O’Neill, also are running again
for their respective seats. While
Docca will run for a seat representing her district — which
includes Poolesville, Barnsville and Laytonsville — voters
countywide are eligible to cast
ballots in the race.
The primary election falls on
June 24 and the general election
on Nov. 4.
Docca’s past school roles
include serving as a teacher at
Gaithersburg High School, assistant principal at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver
Spring and principal at Argyle
Middle School in Silver Spring.
Docca, who is African American, said the school system
needs to address several issues
that African-American and His-
panic students face, including
high dropout rates.
Too many students in both
groups also are suspended compared to white and Asian students, she said, and the county
is part of what she described as
a local and national crisis.
“It’s not just us,” she said.
“It’s everybody in the state.”
Docca said she thinks the
county school system needs to
incorporate more training for
teachers and generally do more
to reach these students.
“We need to have our teachers a lot more aware how they
come across to these students,
how they encourage these students,” she said.
Docca said she would like to
see more African-American and
Hispanic students participate in
the school system’s alternative
programs, some of which “di-
Docca
rectly lead to college.”
The school system’s alternative programs — which focus
on areas such as medical technology, computer design and
auto mechanics — are potential
pathways to college and should
be expanded, Docca said.
“I think we have to encourage more students to be there,”
in part by ensuring that students
are laying the foundation for
the programs early in their academic careers, she said.
Docca said the school system’s partnerships with area
universities provide other good
avenues to help students reach
higher education opportunities.
Another issue on Docca’s
mind is the challenges associated with the school system’s
capital improvements needs.
In its recent work with the
school system’s ﬁscal 2015-20
capital budget, the school board
had to weigh needs around the
county, Docca said.
Some individuals who have
come before the board are too
focused on their individual
schools, she said.
“They can’t see the whole
county — they really can’t,” she
said. “I guess we have to convince them that our staff is not
trying to pick on anybody.”
District staff use many factors
to determine which schools will
undergo projects when, she said.
The school system faces
“a very serious issue” when it
comes to providing the space
for its growing student body,
she said, and more state money
is needed for construction projects to increase capacity.
“We’ve been saying all along
... the state has not funded us in
the last eight to 10 years for the
number of students we have,”
Docca said.
The school system needs to
update its technology to help
students who will require new
computers to take part in the
Common Core State Standardsbased curriculum and new state
assessment tests, she said.
Askedtoratethecurrentschool
board’s performance, Docca said
shewouldgiveitahighgrade.
“To me, it’s like an A, because
we really try to work together.
We don’t get to the table and call
each other out,” she said.
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National Cancer Institute Rockville’s Moore undecided on council run
Two Gaithersburg
leases boosted county’s
ofﬁcials plan to seek
District 3 seat
ofﬁce market in 2013
n
BY
BY SONNY GOLDREICH
SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
Three little letters — NCI —
spelled most of the story for the
local ofﬁce market in 2013, as
the new National Cancer Institute headquarters in Rockville
swung Montgomery County
into a positive year.
Things started with a bang
last January, when the NCI took
delivery of the 575,000-squarefoot complex in the Shady Grove
Life Sciences Center owned by
Johns Hopkins University. The
$200 million build-to-suit project developed by JBG of Chevy
Chase was a major reason the
Maryland suburbs lead the
Greater Washington, D.C., region in ofﬁce space absorption
for the year.
The two-building complex
at 9613 Medical Center Drive
in Rockville turned what would
have been a dismal year for
Maryland into a positive one.
Otherwise, landlords and developers in Montgomery County
and the entire D.C. region suffered from federal gridlock, consolidation and shrinkage, which
prolonged a belated taste of the
Great Recession that had bypassed the area during a binge
in government growth.
While the region showed
negative116,722 square feet
of absorption, Montgomery,
Frederick and Price George’s
counties combined for positive
419,174 square feet, according
to the fourth-quarter ofﬁce market report by broker Jones Lang
LaSalle. That was all in Montgomery, where tenants took a
net 581,644 square feet. Prince
George’s reported negative
94,408 square feet and Frederick
was negative 68,062 square feet.
Montgomery also fared better than the region in total vacancies, with a 15.8 percent rate,
compared with 16.2 percent for
the greater D.C. market.
The year ended on a preNew Year’s Eve federal hangover, with the biggest lease in
the fourth quarter a renewal
signed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which retained 347,922 square feet at the
2 White Flint building owned by
Lerner Enterprises of Rockville.
But the agency also subleased
186,313 square feet to the Food
and Drug Administration at
LCOR’s new 3 White Flint, which
was delivered more than a year
ago and was left more than half
empty due to the NRC’s personnel miscalculations.
This year could be a bit
brighter, as the federal Bipartisan Budget Act signed during
the fourth quarter brought some
relief from sequestration and
will allow agencies to resume
spending.
“Under the new budget deal,
sequestration cuts will be reduced by $63 billion and agencies will have increased spending
authority — a potential catalyst
to regional office demand,”
Jones Lang LaSalle reported in
its fourth-quarter Ofﬁce Insight.
Kurt Stout, executive vice
president for broker Colliers International’s Government Solutions unit, agreed, “sort of,” as he
wrote in his Capitol Markets blog.
He concluded: “The [budget
act] provides tremendous symbolic importance, limited budget
relief and no long-term roadmap. So, it’s ‘sort of’ impactful
on federal leasing because it indicates bipartisan momentum,
which has created optimism.
With optimism and a little bit of
budgeting runway, agencies are
more likely to plan strategically
for their space needs and possibly enter into longer-term lease
commitments.”
That means some agencies
are likely going to be able to
move beyond short-term lease
extensions and sign onto longer
deals.
That’s the case with the
Department of Health and Human Services, which already has
committed to a 15-year lease
renewal for 935,000 square feet
at the Parklawn Building in
Rockville, which JBG expects
to deliver this summer after a
$270 million renovation. The
NRC also will be looking to consolidate under a long-term lease
that will replace the ﬁve-year renewal deal it signed with Lerner.
But a grand budget bargain
will be required to ensure longterm funding of federal tenants’
ofﬁce space needs, Stout wrote.
Otherwise, many agencies will
continue to be stuck in what he
called real estate “triage,” with
short-term lease extensions
making it impossible to strike
larger deals that would allow
them to redesign, consolidate
and shrink the federal footprint.
A Colliers analysis shows that
more than 40 percent of leases
expiring in the past year were
extended three years or less. And
the General Services Administration will have to scramble in the
short term, as one-fourth of all of
its leases are scheduled to expire
in the next two years.
That has left landlords stuck
with shrinking property values
as once-golden federal tenants
are looking more like monthto-month residential squatters
who make it impossible to slap
on fresh paint and carpets to attract new renters.
“The government’s inability
to commit to long-term lease
contracts has been troubling for
lessors faced with loan maturities, and the short-term leases
have substantially eroded the
exit valuations of governmentleased properties,” Stout wrote.
STAFF WRITER
Rockville Councilman Tom
Moore says he expects to decide within the next week or so
whether he will seek a seat on
the County Council.
Moore told The Gazette
Thursday that he would like to
represent District 3, which covers Gaithersburg, Rockville and
some surrounding areas, but he
has not yet decided.
“It’s a great opportunity to
serve, I’m just not sure yet,” he
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STAFF WRITER
Police are looking for a bank
robber who struck a Bethesda
bank the day after Christmas
— ﬁve days after another bank
was robbed in Potomac.
The Bethesda robbery took
place just after 4:30 p.m. at the
M&T Bank at 7920 Norfolk Ave.
in downtown Bethesda.
A man entered the bank
and gave a teller a note demanding cash. The robber told
the teller he was armed, but did
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Amenities include Ride-On
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Krasnow, who was recently
named deputy director of the
Montgomery County Planning
Department, decided not to
seek the District 3 seat.
“I would never run against
Rose,” Moore said, calling
Krasnow
a mentor
and good
friend.
“When she
decided
not to run,
it really left
the door
Moore
wide open.
“It’s been a long time since
someone from Rockville has
represented District 3.”
If Moore enters the race,
he would not be the only citylevel ofﬁcial seeking to represent District 3. Gaithersburg
Mayor Sidney A. Katz (D) told
The Gazette on Thursday that
he plans to run for the seat. He
said he expects to make a formal announcement in a couple
of weeks.
Gaithersburg Councilman
Ryan Spiegel (D) also said he
plans to run for the District 3
seat. As of Tuesday afternoon,
no one had ﬁled to run with the
Board of Elections.
Current County Councilman Philip M. Andrews (D) of
Gaithersburg last year ﬁled to
run for county executive this
year. He has represented District 3 since 1998.
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said.
Moore was re-elected to
his second term on the Rockville council in November.
His campaign website did not
identify him as a member of
any political party. Patch initially reported in December
that Moore was considering
running for County Council.
Moore said the county and
city election schedules mean
that any sitting city leader who
wanted to run for county ofﬁce
would have to start campaigning soon after the city election.
The deadline for county candidates to ﬁle is Feb. 25.
Moore said he began seriously considering a run after
former Rockville Mayor Rose
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not display a weapon, according to Montgomery County Police Ofﬁcer Janelle Smith.
Afterobtaininganundisclosed
amountofcash,therobberfled.
Police said the robber
might be the same one behind
a Dec. 21 robbery at another
M&T Bank branch, on River
Road in Potomac. Just before
3 p.m. that day, a man entered
the bank, demanded cash and
also implied he had a gun, but
did not show a weapon.
Police have described the
Bethesda robber as 35 to 40
years old and 5 feet 7 inches to
5 feet 9 inches tall.
Surveillance photos from
the banks showed a robber
wearing the same baseball cap
both times, according to police.
Officials at the Potomac
branch declined to speak to The
Gazette.
A woman at the Bethesda
branch said the robbery there
left the tellers shaken, but unharmed. Since the robbery,
the branch has hired a security
guard, she said.
In the earlier robbery, police described the man as being 25 to 30 years old, 5 feet 5
inches to 5 feet 8 inches tall and
weighing 130 to 150 pounds.
These last two bank robberies of 2013 capped a busy
year for robbers in the county.
Last year, there were four times
as many bank robberies as in
2012, when there were six, said
Angela Cruz, a county police
spokeswoman.
Ten of the 24 robberies
took place from late October
through the end of the year.
Police ask anyone with information about the robberies
to call 866-411-8477, and can
do so anonymously. Crime
Solvers will pay a cash reward of
up to $10,000 for information.
Philip Hosmer, a spokesman for M&T Bank, said a
reward of up to $5,000 was possible from the bank for information leading to an arrest or
indictment, because the bank
is a member of the Maryland
Association for Bank Security.
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hibit smoking in a vehicle with
a young child, The Gazette reported last week.
“Of course, people made fun
of me when I ﬁrst started doing
this, but we’ve seen the results
now, and I think that’s real
good,” Forehand said.
At the Monday meeting,
Del. Kumar P. Barve, a Gaithersburg Democrat and House
majority leader, said he is hopeful that the state will send more
money to Montgomery County
for school construction. He
also said he thinks consensus is
forming in the General Assembly to raise the minimum wage
statewide. Montgomery and
Prince George’s counties both
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that appeared in the Sentinel beginning
in September 2011.
In court documents, Dorsey’s
lawyers argued that the Ewing report
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about their status or information they had not provided, then
do a very wide sweep to as many
people as possible to say, ‘Hey,
the Maryland Dream Act may
affect you, and if it does, this is
what you want to do,’” Gregory
said.
The measure helped students like Josue Aguiluz, who
moved to Maryland from Honduras nine years ago, at age
13, with his parents and three
brothers. The move meant signiﬁcant changes, from learning
a new language to adapting to a
different culture.
Aguiluz is an undocumented
student — a person who either
overstayed a visa or entered
the country without authorization — who is now able to pay
in-state tuition because of the
Maryland Dream Act.
“First, it doesn’t really hit
you that much. You are young.
School is free, and you don’t really need a job. ... But when you
go to Montgomery College, it
shifts completely. You don’t really have assistance ﬁnancially.
You really see the big gap,” Aguiluz said.
Aguiluz tried to extend his
student visa, so he would not
become undocumented, but he
said U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services rejected his
request. That happened “even
though I was taking AP courses
when I was a freshmen in high
school,” he said. “It just does not
make any sense to me.”
But Aguiluz never stopped
should be part of the evidence in Dorsey’s case.
“One element of a hostile environment case is pervasiveness,” they wrote.
Dorsey also has ﬁled an afﬁdavit
with the court, saying he met with Ewing lawyers who told him his statements
would be held in conﬁdence unless the
following his mother’s advice:
“If you are a good person, good
things are going to happen to
you.”
He plans to transfer to the
University of Maryland and get
into the Robert H. Smith School
of Business.
He also works at Panera
Bread bakery and is saving
money to pay for school.
Aguiluz is projected to get
an associate degree in accounting from Montgomery College in
the Spring 2014 semester.
Jonathan Jayes-Green had
more than 1,000 community
service hours by 2010, at the
end of his high school career at
John F. Kennedy High School
in Silver Spring. He worked as
an intern for Councilwoman
Nancy Navarro (D-Dist. 4). He
won a Public Service Award
from Congressman Christopher
Van Hollen Jr. and a Wheaton
and Kensington Chamber of
Commerce community service
student of the year award. JayesGreen was part of the Montgomery College honors program and
won the 2011 immigrant youth
achievement award by the
American Immigration Council.
Jayes-Green, also an undocumented student, is majoring in
sociology and social justice at
Goucher College, a private Baltimore college.
His ﬁrst choice was to attend University of Maryland,
but he could not afford state institutions. The Maryland Dream
Act had not passed by the time
he was ready for college. It was
cheaper for Jayes-Green to pay
for a private institution and live
on campus than to go to the
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passed measures late last year
to raise the minimum wage in
those jurisdictions.
Del. James W. Gilchrist (D) of
Rockville said that last year, legislators introduced some bills to
strengthen city stormwater fee
regulations and some to weaken
them, but all of them failed.
Lawmakers also introduced legislation for and against speed
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Both stormwater fees and
speed camera programs likely
will come up again this session,
Gilchrist said. A speed camera
ticketing a stopped car in Baltimore fueled criticism of speed
camera programs, Gilchrist said,
but Rockville having a good program can help increase support
for speed camera programs.
“As much as municipalities
and the city of Rockville can
court subpoenaed information, according to court documents.
The city has resisted releasing
any portion of the report, saying in
court filings that it contains confidential personnel records, it is not
relevant to Dorsey’s case and it is
protected under attorney-client
prove that it’s working, that will
be very important to the discussion,” he said.
Del. Luiz R.S. Simmons (D)
of Rockville said he wants to see
the state link its databases of
regulated ﬁrearms and criminal
convictions so Maryland can enforce its law that requires people
to give up their guns after violent
crimes convictions.
Simmons also said he wants
privilege.
Another discrimination lawsuit,
ﬁled by former city employee Courtney
L. Morgan, is making its way through
U.S. District Court. A lawsuit alleging
harassment and negligence, brought by
former city employee Charles Baker in
Montgomery County Circuit Court, has
ing a GED.
The student also must
provide a signed affidavit
vowing to file an application to become a permanent
Maryland resident within 30
days after applying for instate tuition under the Dream
Act.
Males need proof of registration with the U.S. Selective
Service System.
Students must have cop-
“First, it doesn’t really hit you that much.
You are young. School is free, and you
don’t really need a job. ... But when you
go to Montgomery College, it shifts
completely. You don’t really have assistance
ﬁnancially. You really see the big gap.”
Josue Aguiluz
state school near his house.
“I graduated top of my high
school class. ... Within my high
school years, I had over 1,000
hours of community services. ...
I went from being the immigrant
student to now realizing that
there was a full community out
there really investing in seeing
me succeed,” he said.
Jayes-Green’s parents
wanted him to have better education and better opportunities,
so they moved to Maryland from
Panama in 2005, when he was 13
years old.
His family had tourist visas.
They tried to adjust their status,
but Jayes-Green said the family received wrong information
about the U.S. immigration process from a lawyer, and eventually become undocumented.
Opponents have argued that
the Maryland Dream Act violates existing federal law.
“When they graduate, they
are not allowed to work. ... It is
not a good investment for the
state to take,” said Del. Neil C.
Parrott (R-Dist. 2B) of Hagerstown, chairman of MDPetitions.com, which formed to put
the Dream Act on the ballot.
Parrott said he understands
the situation and believes it is
“not fair to everyone all around.”
He said the measure encourages
more illegal activity. The best
solution is for parents to “come
here legally. ... It really is pretty
simple,” Parrott said.
Students taking classes under the Dream Act hope that by
the time they graduate there will
be a immigration reform that
will allow them to work.
But a study by the University
of Maryland, Baltimore County
released in 2012 concluded that
the Maryland Dream Act would
beneﬁt state and local governments with $6.2 million in economic activity from increased
earnings if about 435 students
per year take advantage of the
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been dismissed.
A jury trial for Dorsey’s case is
scheduled for May. He is seeking
$600,000 in damages, plus lost pay and
beneﬁts and attorney’s fees, according
to his complaint.
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Maryland Dream Act requirements
To qualify under the
Maryland Dream Act, students need to have attended
a Maryland high school for at
least three years, starting with
the 2005-2006 year; graduated from a Maryland high
school, or received a GED no
earlier than the 2007-2008
school year; and registered at
a Maryland community college within four years of high
school graduation or receiv-
to promote apprenticeships in
Maryland that would provide
job training for high school students who do not plan to go to
college. He said the U.S. as a
whole lags behind Europe and
Canada in the number of apprenticeships for young people.
The General Assembly is set
to convene Wednesday.
ies of the Maryland state income tax returns ﬁled by the
student, the student’s parent
or legal guardian.
The tax return must be
from each of the three years
the student was in high
school, each year the student
attended community college,
and each year the student was
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Act.
The report estimated that
Dream Act students will make
up about 0.6 percent of the total number of students at the
state’s public higher-education
facilities.
The fiscal policy note attached to the bill also stated
that for each additional student
who qualiﬁes under the bill, local community colleges will receive additional state aid. The
estimated state expenditure in
the 2014 ﬁscal year is $2,100 per
full-time student multiplied by
366 students, which means the
overall state expenditure would
increase by $768,600 in 2014 and
$3.5 million by ﬁscal 2016.
The ﬁscal costs of the program for additional schooling
— measured as per-student
funding that subsidizes high
school and higher education
— will be about $3.6 million for
county governments, $3.6 million for the state and $200,000
for the federal government, according to the report.
But such costs will be more
than offset by increased tax dollars, as well as a drop in spending on incarceration and other
social programs that is expected
to accompany a more educated
population, according to the
study.
The state and county governments stand to share an estimated $6.2 million in tuition
from undocumented students
who will be attending school
at the reduced cost, while the
federal government would get
about $18.4 million in increased
tax revenues and lower government spending on incarceration, a result of a more educated
population, according to the
report.
At Montgomery College,
for a student taking 12 credits
in a semester, the lowest total
cost for tuition and fees would
be $1,780.80. At out-of-county
rates, a student taking 12 credits
would pay $4,689.60 for tuition
and fees.
Tuition for in-state students
at the University of Maryland,
College Park, costs about $9,000
each year, while students who
do not qualify as state residents
pay more than $27,000.
Opponents argued that the
Dream Act would affect community college revenues and
reduce the number of slots available in public institutions.
But the University of Maryland report stated otherwise,
suggesting that additional undocumented immigrant students admitted to Maryland
public community colleges —
which have open enrollment
— will have no impact on the
probability that other students
will or will not be admitted. It
also stated that the Dream Act
will not hurt the number of citizens admitted as freshmen to a
four-year public university.
For Jayes-Green, who is projected to graduate from Goucher
College in 2014, this is just the
beginning of his journey.
“It is hard to pick one dream
because I dream a lot. I think at
the end of the day, I want people
to remember me as someone
that made an impact in the community,” he said.
Aguiluz’s future plans includes learning more about
bookkeeping and auditing.
“As far as accounting goes, I
want to do investing and planning people’s retirements,”
he said. “I feel like every place
that I’ve gone to work, I see old
people and a lot of Hispanic
mothers. ... And, perhaps, if they
could have invested the money,
that could be your retirement
or some college money for your
kids.”
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BUSINESS
Top 2013 news:
Local economy affected by sequestration, shutdown
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Government-dependent
companies suffer;
private sector surges
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Private sector picks up
While the federal segment
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With the federal government
playing a substantial role in Montgomery County’s economy, the biggest business stories of 2013 focused
on sequestration and a shutdown.
The 16-day government shutdown in October put many of
Montgomery and Frederick counties’ roughly 51,000 federal workers
out of work. That came after earlier
sequestration budget cuts had furloughed many employees.
The Bethesda-based National
Institutes of Health cut 5 percent, or
$1.55 billion, of its ﬁscal 2013 budget,
awarding about 640 fewer research
grants. Other government agencies
and private contractors were affected.
Bethesda defense giant Lockheed Martin furloughed about 2,400
employees companywide during
the shutdown, with executives directing them to use vacation time.
The shutdown cost the company
about $40 million, but sequestration
cuts were not as bad as originally expected, with the impact about $400
million, CFO Bruce Tanner said.
Rockville information technology business Terrapin Systems laid
off about 170 employees after losing
a contract with the National Cancer
Institute.
Some contractors were not heavily affected. Fisher BioServices, which
has about 330 employees in Maryland, including 260 at its Rockville
lab, had enough work through its
private segment that the lag in government business did not require the
company to lay off employees, said
Dennis Barger, vice president and
general manager of the company.
“We were fortunate,” he said.
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The Silver Spring Transit Center and Metrorail station, where a Purple Line station is slated to be built.
stalled, the private sector in Montgomery and Frederick counties
picked up steam, adding about
11,000 jobs in the past year, according to federal labor ﬁgures. That was
the most jobs created in the two
counties since 2000.
Among those adding workers
was Wegmans, which opened its
ﬁrst grocery store in Montgomery
with about 550 employees.
Future jobs are expected to come
from Gaithersburg biotech MedImmune, whose parent company announced it will establish a global
research and development center at
MedImmune’s headquarters.
Marketing and specialty care
commercial functions will be centered in Gaithersburg, with about
300 jobs moving there from Wilmington, Del., by 2015.
Construction on the $2.2 billion
Purple Line, a 16-mile rail line that
would connect Bethesda and New
Carrollton, could start in 2015, as
ofﬁcials expect to start acquiring
right-of-way property this year. Six
private-sector teams have submitted statements of qualifications
that they hope will lead to work on
the long-proposed project. Ofﬁcials
hope to choose a partner and recommend the ﬁnal agreement to the
state Board of Public Works within
a year.
Ofﬁcials also hope the $120 million Silver Spring Transit Center,
which has been plagued by con-
struction delays and cost overruns,
will be completed this year.
The ﬁrst phase of Pike & Rose
— one of the region’s largest mixeduse development projects, replacing
Mid-Pike Plaza in North Bethesda
— is expected to be completed this
year. The ﬁrst phase includes some
170,000 square feet of retail, 80,000
square feet of commercial office
and 493 residential units.
The apartment units should open
by May, with an iPic movie theater,
32,000-square-foot Sport & Health
ﬁtness club, a park, ofﬁces and restaurants such as Del Frisco’s Grille,
Roti and ShopHouse Southeast Asian
Kitchen to follow by next fall, said
Evan Goldman, vice president for development of Rockville-based Federal
Realty Investment Trust.
Rain tax, health insurance
marketplace opens
Last year also saw a proposal
to expand the annual storm water
management fee — which some
dub a “rain tax” — to more property
owners. The Montgomery County
Council passed a storm water program that extends the fee to most
businesses, while ofﬁcials said most
homeowners will see a reduction in
what they currently pay.
The fee — fueled by a state law
passed in response to an order by
the U.S. Environmental Protection
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Agency to clean up the Chesapeake
Bay — will be phased in over the
next three years. The fee could be
quite hefty for some such as auto
dealers and shopping center owners that have large parking lots.
In October, Maryland’s new
health care exchange system, a key
part of the federal Affordable Care
Act, opened and individuals started
shopping for health insurance. The
small business program was delayed until April.
Maryland is one of 16 states,
along with Washington, D.C., operating their own exchanges.
Last year was a big one for numerous business leaders, including
Rachel K. King, CEO of Gaithersburg
biotech GlycoMimetics. King was
named board chair of the Biotechnology Industry Association, or BIO,
the industry’s leading national trade
group. The Tech Council of Maryland also honored King with its 2013
Executive of the Year award, and
GlycoMimetics ﬁled to go public.
The housing market continued
to recover in 2013 from its doldrums
during the Great Recession. Montgomery and Frederick saw sales of
existing homes post gains in most
months from a year earlier, including a 26 percent rise in Montgomery
and 15 percent increase in Frederick in October. Prices also rose accordingly.
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The Big Bad Woof pet store, which has stores
in Takoma Park and Hyattsville, plans to open its
third and largest store in Silver Spring.
The company is using Kiva Zip to raise $5,000
in loans online for architectural drawings and is
under lease negotiations for the former Takoma
Park Silver Spring Co-op space.
The store specializes in sustainable and holistic pet products. With the larger space they plan
to offer new services such as dog washing and nutrition classes. It will also feature non-pet-related
local products.
Event planning company opens in Olney
Cooks Customs of Olney is a new full-service
event design and planning company.
Owned and operated by Paul W. Cook III of
Olney, it provides custom services, from decor
to napkins, according to the company, which
opened in June.
Its website is cookscustoms.com and it can
be contacted at info@cookscustoms.com and
703-340-5077.
New home decor studio
opens in Kensington
A new design studio and craft workshop has
opened in Kensington.
Meaghan McNamara of McNamara Design
and Regan Billingsley of Regan Billingsley Interiors recently opened their doors at 4216B Howard
Ave.
“We picked Kensington, especially West Howard Avenue, because we both grew up in the area
and we love how it is industrial, so I can have a
spray booth to paint my furniture and we are surrounded by other artists from metal to glass to
woodworkers ... so we have many other industries at our disposal all on one street,” McNamara
wrote in an email to The Gazette. “And we are
also very excited about the development plans of
future Kensington, i.e. new sidewalks and street
lights on West Howard Ave.”
The store offers interior design services, furniture rehabilitation, faux painting, local artwork,
home accessories and jewelry. The studio also
plans to offer design and crafting classes this
spring.
Store hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday
to Friday and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
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Students, family, friends
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PEGGY MCEWAN
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Stedwick Elementary School
fourth-grade teacher Mary Darling believes it is not enough for her students
to learn things, they also need to share
what they know.
“It helps people know it better when
they have to share,” she said.
Her class created the Stedwick
Nature Center from Dec. 17 to 19 and
invited fellow students, family and
friends to visit their exhibits and learn
about animal habitats, ecology and the
difference humans make in the animal
world — things the students have been
working on.
“They have talents to share and
knowledge to share,” Darling said
about her students. “I want to empower
them.”
All around the second-ﬂoor gathering room at the Montgomery Village
school, students set up displays on
tables and charts on walls. They also
had plenty of stuffed animals to use as
props; many were puppets Darling has
collected over the years.
Student Trung Ngu stood before a
display of fossils, picking up each one
and telling a group of younger students
what they were called, where they were
from and some good reasons for learning about fossils.
“If we didn’t have fossils, we
couldn’t know how dinosaurs moved or
looked or even if they existed,” he said.
Students Michael Botchway and
Gabriel Hernandez talked about endangered animals.
“Polar bears, tigers, pandas and
other animals I never heard of before,”
Gabriel said. “Their environments are
being destroyed.”
Gabriel, who said he would someday like to run a zoo, said many animals
have been lost because people have
used them for food and clothing.
Darling gets her students working
early in the school year, tying the nature center project to lessons from the
science and social studies curriculum.
“We study how animals and people
adapt to their natural environment,
how they fulﬁll the three basic needs:
food, clothing and shelter,” she said.
“We start at the beginning of the year
with basic research skills.”
She brings in lessons from language
arts, requiring the students to keep
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Fourth-graders Sabrina Grifﬁth (left) and Kailyn Pavlicek display animal puppets at the Stedwick Nature Center, a museum created by fourth-graders at Stedwick Elementary School in
Montgomery Village, to showcase science and social studies concepts the students learned
during the ﬁrst four months of the school year.
notes and write up their research, she
said.
One fun exercise is to talk about
animal similes.
“Like ‘hungry as a bear,’” she said.
Several students wrote and produced a play, “Turbo and Rachel Ruby,”
based on the story of the tortoise and
the hare, the same as the original, just
with a different animal cast.
“Writing plays and reading plays is
part of the fourth-grade curriculum,”
Darling said.
It is also fun to watch, according to
Abigail Davidson, a fourth-grader from
another class.
“That was very good,” she said.
Sabrina Grifﬁth created an animal
coloring book while working on her
reading and writing. Copies of her book
were given to ﬁrst-graders who visited
the nature center and who contributed
artwork to decorate the walls.
Brian Stottlemeyer, dressed as Running Wolf, explained the connection
American Indians had with animals to
a group of second-grade visitors.
“They [use] all of any animal they
kill,” Brian said. “They thought it would
be rude not to use everything if they kill
an animal.”
Emma Hall, a fourth-grader from
Sarah Beyrent’s class, said she liked the
nature center and learned a lot from her
visit.
“I learned many different things
about animals and Native Americans
and extinct and endangered animals,
especially the polar bear, and global
warming,” she said.
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EDUCATION NOTEBOOK
Academy of the Holy
Cross seniors get on
board with the Bard
Four seniors from the Academy of the Holy Cross in Kensington participated in the fall
Folger Fellowship Program at
the Folger Shakespeare Library
in Washington, D.C.
Katherine Axelsson, Madeline Hollingsworth, Catherine
Lamoreaux and Madeline Pence
were part of a 16-student class
that met twice weekly from September to December. Participants explored Shakespeare’s
plays and used the library’s
resources.
The program investigated
a range of approaches and
theories to the study of Shakespeare. It included academic
seminars, practical theater
education, reading and writing assignments, and theater
performances. Students had the
opportunity to meet scholars,
directors, actors, designers and
stage combat choreographers.
Participation included reading plays and related material
each week, writing a series of
papers and a ﬁnal researched
essay, an independent project
exploring Shakespeare, and
presenting a ﬁnal acting project
at the end of the semester.
“It was a different approach
to learning Shakespeare,” Hollingsworth said in a news release. “We examined the works
from a variety of perspectives to
develop our own conclusions.”
She said she enjoyed the
entire experience, but was
most pleased to meet Barbara
Mowat, director of research at
the library and the editor, with
Paul Werstine, of the Folger
Shakespeare Library editions
of Shakespeare’s works. Hollingsworth said she hopes to
become a writer and was encouraged by her conversation
with Mowat.
The students said they were
grateful for their strong writing
foundation from their school’s
English department. Axelsson
said they were able to help
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other students with their papers
during the peer review.
“We were very well prepared because we’re so familiar
with the writing process,” Axelsson said in the release.
The students also said the
experience helped them manage their time during a busy
senior ﬁrst semester.
Scholarships available
for graduating seniors
Ivy Vine Charities, the
charitable foundation for Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority, Theta
Omega Omega Chapter, is accepting applications for its 2014
academic scholarship program.
The scholarship program
was established to recognize
outstanding achievements of
graduating high school seniors
in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
The foundation will award
scholarships to the highestrated student in each of the following categories:
• Graduating high school
senior planning to attend and
enrolled in a four-year college
or university: $1,500.
• Graduating high school
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senior planning to attend and
enrolled in a historically black
college or university: $1,500.
• Montgomery County
graduating high school senior
planning to attend Montgomery College: $1,000.
• Montgomery County
graduating high school senior
planning to attend a four-year
college or university: $1,000.
• Book awards, usually two,
given to help buy textbooks: 500.
The scholarships will be
presented at the Ivy Vine Charities afternoon tea March 23.
Winners are required to attend.
Applications and more
information are at ivyvinecharities.org/scholarship.html.
Application and supporting
documents must be mailed to
Ivy Vine Charities, attn.: Deirdre
Reynolds Jones, 43 Randolph
Road, PMB 102, Silver Spring,
MD 20904. The deadline is Feb. 8.
rolling for the 2014-15 school
year. Each open house starts
with a presentation, followed by
a tour of the facilities.
St. Raphael School, enrolling students in kindergarten
through grade 8, specializes in
tailored academics through integrated technology, including
a one-to-one iPad program for
middle-schoolers, differentiated learning and small-group
instruction. Its open house will
be from 9:15 to 10:15 a.m.
The open house at the nursery school is from 10:45 to 11:45
a.m. The school offers programs
for 3-year-olds, 4-year-olds
and pre-kindergartners, plus
extended-day offerings.
Child care is available during the open houses. For more
information or a separate appointment, call 301-762-2143 or
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Students interested in enrolling in Edison will have the
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school’s programs, meet teachers and current students, see
live demonstrations and complete applications.
Edison serves students in
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in one of Edison’s 18 career
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principles of architecture and
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County’s volunteer ﬁreﬁghters a growing force
Bucking national trend,
hundreds joining services
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BY ST. JOHN
BARNED-SMITH
STAFF WRITER
As many volunteer ﬁre departments across the country
struggle with declining membership and more calls for
service, Montgomery County
ofﬁcials say the area’s volunteer
ﬁre services are healthy, growing
and saving taxpayers millions.
Eric Bernard, president of
the Montgomery County Volunteer Fire-Rescue Association,
said the county has received
three federal grants in recent
years totaling nearly $1 million.
That has helped hire a volunteer
ﬁreﬁghter recruiter, and advertise and promote volunteer ﬁreﬁghting opportunities through
social media.
Those efforts have paid off,
according to association ofﬁcials: The county’s volunteer
ﬁre departments recruited more
than 260 new volunteers in 2013.
“There are lots of potential
volunteer ﬁreﬁghters — they need
to know they are needed and welcome,” county Councilman Philip
M. Andrews (D-Dist. 3) of Gaithersburg told The Gazette.
Montgomery County has
nearly 1,200 career ﬁreﬁghters
and more than 900 volunteer
ﬁreﬁghters or rescue personnel,
PROTEST
Continued from Page A-1
tions.
Some nearby school systems opted to delay or close
their schools. Fairfax County
(Va.) Public Schools decided
to close and Prince George’s
County Public Schools opened
two hours late. Public schools in
Washington remained open.
Dana Toﬁg, spokesman for
the Montgomery County school
system, said only a few schools
were facing issues Tuesday
morning.
Jackson Road Elementary
School in Silver Spring closed
after a power outage, Toﬁg said.
COLD
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department. The plan directs
county homeless shelters to
stay open all day instead of just
overnight. It is issued any time
daytime high temperatures are
expected to be below 32 degrees.
Two emergency shelters in
Rockville, funded by the county,
are open around the clock to
give refuge to the homeless:
Home Builders Care Assessment
Center for men operated by the
Coalition for the Homeless, at
600B E. Gude Drive, and Rainbow Place for women, at 215 W.
Montgomery Ave.
During the overnight hours
Monday into Tuesday, 322 of
the shelters’ combined 395 beds
were occupied, Anderson said.
there has been occasional friction between the two groups in
the past, but Sherburne said the
current relationship between the
groups is “pretty good.” He added
that the county’s attitude toward
the volunteer system has helped
keep volunteer enthusiasm high.
“When people feel needed,
they will continue to participate,” he said. “If they feel
passed aside or not needed, that
can be a very negative thing.”
Fire ofﬁcials say the system
provides the county with numerous beneﬁts, such as training for
aspiring career ﬁreﬁghters. It offers a stream of seasoned career
ﬁreﬁghters who frequently return to volunteer departments
in leadership or trainer positions
after they retire.
In many cases, aspiring
ﬁreﬁghters begin volunteering
at their local station or with a
specific department, Bernard
said. There are 19 volunteer ﬁre
departments in the county, he
said. Career ﬁreﬁghters, who are
paid with county dollars, staff
many of those ﬁre departments
alongside volunteers. The exception is the Bethesda-Chevy
Chase squad, which pays some
career ﬁreﬁghters out of its own
budget, he said.
Like career ﬁreﬁghters, volunteer ﬁreﬁghters must make a
commitment to become certiﬁed ﬁreﬁghters or rescue personnel. Volunteers attend an
11-week orientation class, as well
as hundreds of hours of class
and training to reach “minimum
stafﬁng level,” Bernard said.
Many career ﬁreﬁghters who
work in other counties but live in
Montgomery County volunteer
here, he said.
The county’s force bucks national trends, which have seen a
steady decline in the number of
volunteerfirefighters,Bernardsaid.
According to the National
Volunteer Fire Council, twothirds of the nation’s ﬁre departments are volunteer. As
emergency calls have tripled
since 1988, the number of volunteer ﬁreﬁghters has declined
by 13 percent since 1984, or
more than 100,000 volunteers.
Bernard attributed the decline to the increased demands
on volunteer firefighters, including more rigorous training
standards. Unlike some jurisdictions, where volunteers respond
to ﬁres from their jobs or homes,
volunteers in Montgomery
County serve their whole shift
based at their ﬁrehouse, he said.
Alan Hinde, chief of the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue
Volunteer Services Division, said
the county’s proximity to Washington and its dense population
mean standards for area volunteers are high, as is demand, with
one Rockville firehouse getting
more than 10,000 calls a year.
“We’re going to be called a
lot; we need to be good at what
we do,” Hinde said.
online, describing cold conditions waiting for the bus, walking to school and sometimes in
school buildings.
One woman who identiﬁed
herself as a county teacher wrote
online Tuesday that “unfortunately I work in an area where
students often come to school
under dressed.”
Some students directed
sarcastic and angry — and
sometimes expletive-filled —
messages to both Starr and the
school system.
“Why is my bus not here yet
/ my tears are frozen / thanks @
MCPS,” one student wrote.
At one bus stop in a Gaithersburg neighborhood, opinions
about the school system’s deci-
sion were mixed.
Standing bundled up in
his garage, John Davis said he
was “a little disappointed” that
schools were open.
Davis said his daughter had
come home Monday night saying there could be a two-hour
delay.
“I didn’t even really agree
with that,” he said.
His 10-year-old daughter,
Lauren, stood with him to wait
for the bus to Fields Road Elementary School, having just
returned from helping other
children cross the street and get
on their buses.
Lauren said she had to tell
some kids to put on their jackets.
“It’s super cold outside; I
wish there was no school,” she
said.
Other parents, however,
said they supported the choice
to keep schools open.
“I think it’s ﬁne, they should
go — especially ‘cause I have
a high schooler and they have
exams next week,” said Bonnie
Sneeringer of Gaithersburg.
Sneeringer — a former resident of Chicago familiar with
cold weather — said she prepared her children by making
sure they were bundled up.
“Cold is not a reason to get
out of school,” she said.
Michael Doran, principal at
Thomas S. Wootton High School
in Rockville, said the building
was doing mostly ﬁne despite
the temperatures.
Doran said one classroom
was cold enough to move students to a warmer spot in the
building.
“Those kids are meeting in
the media center today,” he said.
Students have been out of
school a lot recently, Doran
said, and too many interruptions can potentially push back
exam schedules and extend the
school year.
Though some students were
“annoyed,” attendance did not
seem to be affected, he said.
“I’ve been walking around
the classrooms and they seem
pretty full,” Doran said. “They
might complain, but they’re
here.”
shelters and services.
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville treated one
patient for symptoms of cold exposure, according to a hospital
spokesman. Suburban Hospital
ofﬁcials in Bethesda said there
had been no reported cases of hypothermia as of 2 p.m. Tuesday.
The Maryland Public Service
Commission, PJM Interconnection and Pepco asked Marylanders to conserve electricity
Tuesday. According to PJM,
which operates the regional
power grid, demand for electricity was expected to increase because of the cold weather.
To save energy, consumers
are asked to set their thermostats lower than usual, postpone
using major electric appliances
until after 9 p.m., and turn off
any lights, space heaters and ap-
pliances not being used.
Pepco outage maps showed
208 customers in Montgomery
County were without power as
of 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Frigid temperatures are causing an increase in water main
breaks in the area. As of 2:30 p.m.
Tuesday, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission was
working on 38 water main breaks
in Montgomery County, spokeswoman Lyn Riggins said.
“Our crews are ﬁxing them as
quickly as possible and moving
on to the next break,” she said.
The most notable incident
was at Viers Mill Road and University Boulevard in Wheaton.
“There was some traffic
tie-up there, but that has since
dispelled,” said WSSC spokeswoman Kira Lewis.
According to a WSSC news
release, one-third of its water
pipes are more than 50 years
old. When colder water starts
moving through the old and
brittle pipes, a spike in breaks
and leaks is likely.
Lewis said that as part of
winter preparations, workers
who usually work on water main
replacement projects are pulled
to work on main breaks.
“The guys work under tremendous weather conditions
year-round,” she said. “They
have special gear and take
breaks to warm up. They are always mindful that what they do
is so important.”
WSSC customers can report a
water main break by calling 301206-4002 or emailing emergency-
callcenter@wsscwater.com.
Metro spokesman Philip
Stewart said trains were running at normal speed Tuesday.
A broken rail near the Brookland station on the Red Line in
Washington, D.C., caused the
only weather-related delay, but
trains were running on schedule
through that area by 6 a.m.
He said there had been no
reports of broken heaters on
trains, but they may lose heat
as they move down the line because of frequently opening and
closing doors.
At the Bethesda Metro station, icicles hanging over an escalator were removed.
“The escalator is now back
in service,” Stewart said.
such as paramedics. According
to Bernard, almost 700 more
recruits are in the process of becoming volunteer ﬁreﬁghters or
rescue personnel.
State and tax dollars pay for
training, Bernard said, adding
that to reach “minimum staffing” levels of training — 350
hours of training — usually takes
about a year.
A 2011 report by his association estimated that volunteer
ﬁreﬁghters, EMTs and paramedics saved the county $25 million
every year in salaries, benefits
and equipment. Volunteer fire
and rescue squads own many of
their stations, and purchase and
maintain some of their equipment, Bernard said. County dollars subsidize some costs, he said.
One station — the BethesdaChevy Chase Rescue Squad
— operates completely free of
county tax dollars, he said.
The county’s current fire
and rescue system emerged
from a structure that included
many volunteer fire departments. Over time, many departments added paid ﬁreﬁghters
and rescue workers as they became unable to handle the high
call volume.
In 1989, many of those employees became county employees, Bernard said. About 10 years
ago, all of the individual fire
departments came under the
authority of the Montgomery
County Fire and Rescue Service.
According to Scott Graham,
assistant chief with the service,
volunteers work alongside career firefighters and rescue
personnel, and provide needed
night and weekend coverage.
“When a ﬁretruck goes out
of a ﬁre station, chances are it
could be staffed with both volunteer and career personnel,”
he said.
“It’s a different system,”
Graham said, laughing. “But it’s
one that, when it shakes out at
the end of the day, works better than most [departments that
are] all paid or all volunteer that
I know of. It’s incredibly efﬁcient, incredibly successful.”
Graham, who started as a
volunteer in Ocean City, said the
county’s volunteer and career
ﬁreﬁghters have worked together
for decades. More recently, the
county struck a collective bargaining agreement with its volunteers, an arrangement that
provides educational benefits
like those other county employees receive, as well as uniforms,
recognition for service and other
benefits. Fire officials say the
agreement is one of the only ones
of its kind in the country.
Ned Sherburne juggles
working as a federal employee
in Washington with serving as
chief of the Bethesda-Chevy
Chase squad. He has been a volunteer ﬁreﬁghter since 1978.
Volunteer firefighters and
career ﬁreﬁghters acknowledge
Capt. James E. Daly Elementary School in Germantown also
lost electricity but remains open,
with Pepco saying power will be
restored soon, he said.
A pipe burst at White Oak
Middle School in Silver Spring,
causing some classrooms to be
closed, Tofig said, adding he
wasn’t sure how many.
Most school buses started in
the early morning weather, he
said. For those that didn’t start,
replacement buses were used.
“We had a few schools that
have some weather-related issues,” Toﬁg said. “That happens
in the winter when it’s cold.”
Some members of the school
system community, however,
expressed their unhappiness
That’s more than usual, with
only 292 beds reportedly ﬁlled
Saturday night.
Home Builders Care Assessment Center alone has capacity for 135 men, but 160 sought
shelter there Monday night, according to Montgomery County
Coalition for the Homeless Executive Director Susanne Sinclair-Smith. Twenty-five men
were taken to East County Community Recreation Center in Silver Spring for shelter overnight,
Sinclair-Smith said.
Homeless people also are
encouraged to visit county facilities such as libraries and recreation centers to escape the cold.
Anderson said county ofﬁcials urge anyone in need of
help for themselves or others to
call the crisis center at 240-7774000. Information is available on
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Cut the tolls and
increase mobility
In the 12 months ending in June 2013, motorists made
17.2 million trips on the Intercounty Connector, which
costs $8 for a peak-time round-trip between Gaithersburg
and Laurel.
Advocates — notably Councilman Philip M. Andrews
and the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce — think drivers in the region would beneﬁt if the
state cut the tolls in half.
With lower tolls, the thinking goes, more people will
be diverted from other highways, most likely Interstate
270, the Capital Beltway and
Interstate 95, which are among
the most congested in the reTHE STATE
gion. In a letter to The Gazette a
SHOULD CUT year
ago, Andrews conﬁdently
THE COST OF predicted
that cutting the tolls in
DRIVING ON
half would double the trafﬁc on
THE ICC
the road.
The Maryland Transportation Authority, which operates
the ICC, has a study that contradicts Andrews’ boldness.
CDM Smith of Cambridge, Mass., estimates that a 50 percent reduction in the tolls would increase trafﬁc volume,
by 2015, by 21 percent. Toll revenue by 2015 would decline
by 33 percent, from $65.1 million to $43.7 million.
A difference of $21.4 million is nothing to take lightly.
By the same token, that 21 percent increase in trafﬁc volume shouldn’t be taken lightly either.
As Marilyn Balcombe, president and CEO of the chamber, told The Gazette’s Kevin James Shay: “The road was
not built to raise revenue. The road was built to alleviate
trafﬁc and help mobility. If we can increase the number of
people using the ICC, the better mobility we can have.”
Exactly.
Balcombe and Andrews present serious arguments
that deserve consideration. We think the state’s numbers
downplay how motorists will change their patterns once
they hear the ICC charges less for its 18-mile connection.
We think there’s an easy way to prove them right or
wrong: Cut the tolls and see what happens. Large electronic signs already proclaim the current rates, so an education campaign would be minimal.
If the number of motorists don’t increase to offset the
loss in revenue, the state can reset the tolls.
Absent a precipitous decline in tolls, the state should
be thinking about mobility.
Election board misﬁres
Someone at the Maryland State Board of Elections, in
a ﬁt of grogginess, must have thought he or she was in Virginia. That’s where the governor and the lieutenant governor run and are elected separetely.
There’s no other fathomable explanation for the Maryland board’s recent ruling that the yin of a gubernatorial
ticket can’t raise money during the legislative session, but
the yang can.
That’s how the board sees it in the case of Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown, a Democratic candidate for governor, and
his running mate, Howard County Executive Ken Ulman,
who is trying to be elected lieutenant governor.
In Maryland, the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, comptroller and members of the General Assembly are prohibited from raising campaign cash during
the legislature’s annual 90-day regular session.
Annapolis and the state government universe are
awash in campaign money and unadulterated ingratiating
year-round. But, presumably, the ban keeps the capital
a little less unwholesome for the busiest quarter — like
throwing a pile of dirty laundry in a closet when relatives
come to visit.
Consider what the election board has decided: Brown
must abide by the exclusion; Ulman, a local ofﬁcial, can ignore it. But money raised for Ulman obviously beneﬁts both.
Or has the election board ﬁgured out a way to permanently
segregate money raised individually for a joint ticket?
The governor-lieutenant governor candidate ticket of
Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler and Del. Jolene Ivey,
who both must sit out three months of fundraising before
the June primary, are put at a severe disadvantage.
Before we wring our hands in angst, though, we suspect Gansler will ﬁnd a way to get his message out with the
multiple millions in his campaign account.
Instead, we’ll proceed with our idea for a ground-leveling solution.
Forget fundraising dark periods. We’d rather see designated fundraising seasons — something akin to when it’s
legal to hunt deer or other wildlife.
We see good potential and a strong calendar ﬁt in the
wild turkey spring season, which runs from April 18 to May
23.
Why not let candidates for state ofﬁces run at large —
literally — for those ﬁve weeks. Lobbyists and special interest groups — wearing blaze orange, of course — could
load up their cash-infusing weapons and see if they can
bag the big one.
Call it “buck season.”
Crazy? Two can play that game, election board.
The Gazette
Karen Acton,
President/Publisher
LETTERS TOT HE EDITOR
Term limits needed in Gaithersburg
The Gaithersburg city election in 2013 is a good example
of the need for consecutive term
limits for incumbents. Less than
6 percent of all registered voters
chose to go to the polls on Nov.
5, as this election was dubbed
the No Selection Election. Voters want a voice when they go
to the election polls, but when
there are no choices in the election, the voters’ voices [are] not
heard.
The last challenger to win
an elected incumbent’s seat
was Ann Somerset in 1999.
Due to a vigorous campaign
of knocking on every voter’s
door, Ann won her place on
the City Council. This was a
very daunting task since she
was competing with the visibility and name recognition
of the incumbents.
Since the city of Gaithersburg’s population continues to
grow rapidly, this type of campaign has become impractical
and archaic. In the Gaithersburg City Election 2013, there
were no challengers, no candidate debates, no candidate
mailings, no candidate newspaper ads and negligible voter
interest.
In order to revive Gaithersburg politics and encourage
citizens to become candidates
Legislature should seal
nonviolent records
The decriminalization
and even the legalization of
marijuana are important cogs
in the wheel of comprehensive criminal justice reform in
Maryland.
Along with enforcing our
newly passed gun-safety laws,
ﬁghting for safe and sick leave,
expanding access to protective
orders in cases of dating violence and sexual assault, full
funding for the criminal injuries compensation board, and
effective prisoner re-entry;
the marijuana issue offers our
state ofﬁcials the chance to
make a signiﬁcant difference
in how we handle our criminal
justice inequities.
Notwithstanding the
eventual legalization of marijuana, the Maryland State Legislature should move quickly
to implement new laws that
seal or shield criminal records
of individuals who have been
convicted of marijuana possession where violence was
not a factor.
According to a recent
ACLU report, Maryland currently has the fourth-highest
arrest rate for marijuana possession in the country. In
Maryland, police arrest one
out of every 250 people for
marijuana possession, and
marijuana-related arrests
make up roughly 50 percent
of all drug arrests in our state.
Even more alarming is the fact
that African-Americans make
up only 30 percent Maryland’s population, but make
up 58 percent of arrests for
marijuana possession despite
having equal marijuana usage
rates as their white counterparts.
Sealing or shielding these
conviction records is a critical step toward mitigating
the long-term debilitating
disparities of our criminal justice system. Without
such a law, thousands of
Marylanders who have been
convicted of non-violent
marijuana possession will
continue to be cut off from
the societal on ramps (e.g.
grants, loans, jobs, school
admission) to the highway
of upward mobility. If lawmakers in Maryland are serious about comprehensive
reform, they’ll pass a shield
and seal law in the upcoming
legislative session.
Will Smith, Silver Spring
The writer is a Democratic
candidate for the Maryland
House of Delegates in District
20.
for public ofﬁce, a consecutive
term limit should be considered
by the Gaithersburg mayor and
City Council.
An elected incumbent
would be allowed to run for ofﬁce once for continuous service
of eight years. However, after
eight years of continuous service, the incumbent would then
be required to take a sabbatical
for at least one election cycle of
two years.
This would encourage interested citizens to step forward as candidates and run for
the open seat. After at least two
years, the incumbent could run
for Gaithersburg public ofﬁce
Paul and JoAnn Schimke,
Gaithersburg
Development, Ten Mile
Creek can’t coexist
Please excuse me, Mr. Shapiro, but you make shameful,
outlandish and inaccurate statements [“Development, Ten Mile
Creek can coexist,” letters, Dec.
24].
The ﬁrst thing I noticed in
your letter is your egregious
conﬂict of interest. You have an
elected position in the Clarksburg Chamber of Commerce.
Protection of the environment is not an “ideological
tendency.” An ideology is a
large-scale way of looking at
the world, but that way the
world looks is actually an illusion. Environmental conservation is no illusion, nor is water
quality.
What specifically is the
“well-documented scientific
fact” that you repeatedly and
disgracefully refer to? The argument behind preserving the Ten
Mile Creek Watershed is backed
by scientiﬁc fact, whereas development is encouraged by ﬁnancial interests.
Simply Google the words
“environment, development,
pollution and water quality” all
together, and you will encounter
dozens of peer-reviewed, scientiﬁc publications that are consistent with my argument about
the delicacy of a watershed to
development.
What speciﬁc state and current laws will protect the Ten
Mile Creek Watershed?
It amuses me that you consider the preservation of the
environment to be self-serving.
If anything, your push for development is self-serving. Do you
have a ﬁnancial stake in the development if it were to proceed?
I am positive that these environmental groups are at least partially composed of members of
the Clarksburg community.
The environmentalists’ arguments are not antiquated as
you say. They are in fact supported by the Environmental
Protection Agency and current
understanding in the environmental sciences.
The construction of homes
only destroys the environment
and negatively contributes to
climate change. What is your
plan to mitigate a substantial
release of greenhouse gases?
How does development protect or improve the environment? Virtually all indicators
of environmental health and
quality near a site of development decline when development occurs.
I doubt that your community has suffered “devastating
economic harm” as a result of
the construction delay. The median annual household income
of Clarksburg exceeds $125,000.
Jeffrey Blazar, Gaithersburg
Bag tax revenue should be returned
Clearly something is amiss and awry if the
county bag tax has generated over $1.7 million
in revenue for Montgomery County [“Bag tax
generates millions for county,” Dec. 22].
In corresponding with county ofﬁcials
prior to implementation of the tax, I was told
repeatedly that income, revenue, whatever
you wish to call it, was not the focus of the
tax and that the county’s goal was to raise
nothing from it! Right. Want to sell me a
bridge next, Montgomery County?
In light of this monetary windfall, I pro-
pose distributing the revenue to all Montgomery County residents. Certainly the $1.7
million rightfully belongs to them, if the intent was to raise nothing. I won’t look for my
check in the mail anytime soon.
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2007 when seven candidates ran
for three open seats on the City
Council to know that citizens do
want to serve. When there are
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willing to put their time, efforts
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T H E G AZ ET T E
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 r
Funny money
Money is the mother’s milk of
politics: having it doesn’t guarantee
victory, but not having it almost always guarantees defeat.
Campaign money also has
become a battleground in this
year’s governor’s race. In November, Democratic candidate Doug
Gansler invited his chief rival, Anthony Brown, to reject so-called
“dark money” spending during the
primary election.
Banning such “outside spending” by PACs,
unions and
anyone except
the
candidate’s
own campaigns was a
self-serving
Gansler ploy
masquerading as good
government.
Third-party
MY MARYLAND
spending on
BLAIR LEE
ads and voter
turnout benefits Brown,
because most third-party groups
(unions, PACs, incumbents, etc.)
are in his camp. Conversely, limiting campaign spending to the candidate’s war chests beneﬁts Gansler,
who’s raised more than Brown. So
Brown declined Gansler’s invitation.
But the most interesting aspect
of Gansler’s good government trap
was his proposed penalty: any candidate who violates the pledge must
make a campaign donation to a
charity.
Turns out that it’s illegal in Maryland for a candidate to direct a contribution to a charity or nonproﬁt.
Why? Because that’s how elected
ofﬁcials, particularly in P.G. County,
“laundered” unsavory campaign
donations. Instead of taking money
from developers or other special interests that might look bad on the
candidate’s ﬁnancial report, candidates directed the money to charities
in their districts and then took credit
for it. That’s why it’s now illegal.
The latest money battle involves
another fundraising ban, a 1997 law
prohibiting fundraising during the
General Assembly’s 90-day session
(mid-January to mid-April). The ban
applies to the governor, lieutenant
governor, attorney general, comptroller and all 188 members of the
legislature.
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It’s a curious law unless you
understand its origins. If lobbyists
and special interests want to legally
bribe state lawmakers with campaign contributions, why ban such
corruption only during the 90-day
session while allowing it the rest of
the year?
Answer: Because the 90-day session ban wasn’t demanded by the
lawmakers, it was demanded by the
State House lobbyists! That’s right,
in 1997 the lobbyists went to the
presiding ofﬁcers begging for relief
from legislators who were preying
on them during the session.
For instance, if a lobbyist’s bill
was up for an afternoon committee vote, the committee chairman
or key members would sometimes
hold a sudden “fundraising breakfast” to which the lobbyist, with
check in hand, was invited. Some
legislators didn’t even bother with
the breakfast subterfuge — just give
me the check. The lobbyists were
getting eaten alive. That’s why it’s
now illegal.
The 90-day session ban wasn’t
problematic until this election because, except for ending same-day
session extortion, it didn’t have
much effect. State lawmakers still
had plenty of time to shake down
the special interests before and after
the session. But moving Maryland’s
primary election (the most important election in one-party Maryland)
from September to June 24 made
the ban a political battleﬁeld.
Once the session adjourns in
mid-April, only a two-month primary campaign remains. So, money
for media ad buys, direct mail and
election day mobilization must be
on hand early. Gubernatorial tickets that can’t fundraise during the
session are at a huge disadvantage.
For instance, neither Doug Gansler
(attorney general) nor his running
mate Jolene Ivey (delegate) can fundraise during the session.
Likewise, Lt. Gov. Anthony
Brown is banned. But how about
his running mate, Ken Ulman? If
Ulman was running for re-election
as Howard County executive he
wouldn’t be covered by the ban, but
shouldn’t he be covered now that
he’s Brown’s ticket mate?
No, says the state elections administrator, Linda Lamone. Even
though state law uniﬁes the candidates into a single ticket (when you
vote for governor you automatically
vote for his/her running mate) and
even though whatever Ulman raises
independently during the session
can and will be transferred into the
Brown/Ulman joint account, the state
elections board views them as separate entities for fundraising purposes
so long as Ulman and Brown “don’t
coordinate their fundraising during
the 90 day session.” Huh?
Didn’t the legislature just outlaw
campaign contributions by LLCs,
partnerships and other “separate
entities” under single control because donors were using them to
circumvent campaign contribution
limits? Yet, the “separate entities”
ﬁction is OK to circumvent the 90day session ban?
Here’s the tip-off: Brown “has
said all along he would follow the letter of the law as deﬁned by the Board
of Elections,” said Brown’s spokesman. Translation: We are conﬁdent
that the board appointed by Brown’s
biggest backer, Gov. O’Malley, will
give us a favorable ruling whether it
makes sense or not.
The five-member Elections
Board (three Dems, two Republicans) is appointed “with the advice
and consent” of the State Senate (i.e.
Mike Miller). The elections administrator, who runs the elections ofﬁce,
was appointed for a six-year term by
the governor up until 2002, when a
Republican, Bob Ehrlich, won. To
keep Ehrlich from replacing Linda
Lamone, a Miller loyalist, the Dems
stripped Ehrlich of his appointment
power and made Lamone de facto
administrator for life (she’s in the
17th year of her six-year term).
So, just as the Brown camp expected, the elections board helped
Brown and hurt Gansler, whose
camp is now suing.
But all this inside baseball
gets eclipsed in two weeks when
the candidates must disclose how
much money they’ve actually raised
to date and how much they have on
hand. That’s when we’ll know who’s
for real and who’s not.
Blair Lee is chairman of the
board of Lee Development Group
in Silver Spring and a regular
commentator for WBAL radio. His
column appears Fridays in the Business Gazette.
His past columns are available
at www.gazette.net/blairlee. His
email address is blairleeiv@gmail.
com.
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LETTERS TOT HE EDITOR
Another view of
the Affordable Care Act
Your Jan. 1 edition carried a letter by
Hrant Jamgochian lauding the introduction to Maryland of the so-called Affordable Care Act [“Affordable Health Care
means more will be covered”]. I wonder if
many Marylanders would agree with Mr.
Jamgochian’s assessment.
Mr. Jamgochian’s letter starts by
claiming that, “100,000 Marylanders will
have access to high-quality health care
because of the Affordable Health Care
Act.”
But then, later in the letter, he says
that 77,000 Marylanders have successfully
created accounts. Of course, that doesn’t
mean they are insured. Let’s assume,
though, that [as of] Jan. 1 they are actually
insured. What then of the 76,000 Marylanders who received cancellation notices
as of Nov. 12, something Mr. Jamgochian
neglects to mention.
On net, then, at most, 1,000 more
Marylanders will be insured after Jan. 1,
not the 100,000 that Jamgochian wants
you to believe is the case. A paltry increase
for an unbelievable painful experience for
many Marylanders.
Jamgochian neglects to mention other
serious issues in his rosy assessment of
the ACA. One is the cost of the new plans.
Many if not all the plans cost more: the
premium is higher and the deductible is
much higher than for many of the canceled plans. A case in point is Bowie State
University. What cost $54 per semester
per student is now $900 per semester. The
consequence: Bowie State stopped offering health insurance.
Of course, those students are just
the kind of people needed for the ACA
to work, and that leads to another issue.
If the newly insured comprise primarily
those who are more elderly or more ill
than expected, the insurance premiums
will have to be raised yet further for the
insurance companies to survive. So what
is now barely affordable will become completely unaffordable.
Yet another issue Jamgochian neglects
to mention is the way small businesses
[are affected] after Jan 1. If they are on the
hook for a lot more money, they will probably drop their plans as well, leaving their
employees in limbo.
Jamgochian seems to believe, like
many, there is a free lunch, but there isn’t.
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It is costly to insure the uninsured, especially the uninsurable with pre-existing
conditions.
More modest changes could have
been made to our medical insurance system, as for example, by transparently increasing taxes to subsidize those who are
currently uninsurable. Instead, we have a
surreptitious tax increase in the form of
very large cost increases in medical insurance premiums (and deductibles) to
subsidize the uninsurable. That is not the
most efﬁcient to subsidize the uninsurable, especially when it destroy our current system.
Granted, our medical insurance system was not utopian, but it worked for
many people. But, no, the whole system
had to be destroyed just for those uninsurables. So it seems that [as of] Jan. 1, more
people [are] uninsured than if the Affordable Care Act had never been passed, and
those insured through it [are] paying a lot
more.
The medical insurance system we
once had has now been broken, and no
amount of claims to the contrary can refute that. What is replacing it appears a
lot more costly. What the future holds
for our medical insurance system is anyone’s guess, especially with the president
changing the rules as he goes along.
Jack Rutner, Silver Spring
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HOW THEY RANK
BOYS
The 10 best boys’ basketball teams
in Montgomery County as ranked by
The Gazette’s sports staff:
Rank
1.
School
Northwest
wrestler
chasing
100 wins
Winston Churchill High School
senior speedskater Shaner
LeBauer participated in Olympic
qualifying last week. FILE PHOTO
Record Pts
Montrose Christian 6-4 59
2.
Bullis
10-3 55
3.
Gaithersburg
9-0 46
4.
St. Andrew’s
7-1 44
5.
Springbrook
7-1 36
6.
Montgomery Blair 7-2 29
6.
Clarksburg
6-3 20
8.
Poolesville
7-2 19
9.
Rockville
7-2 12
10.
R. Montgomery
7-3 9
Senior 120-pounder has
already won county, region
championships
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BY
STAFF WRITER
Others receiving votes:
The Heights, 1.
BEST BET
Richard Montgomery at Walt
Whitman, 7 p.m. Wednesday. Two
of the surprise teams in Montgomery County this season face off in a
clash of 4A South Region leaders.
TOP SCORERS
Name, school
A. Trier, Montrose Christian
J. Friedman, Sandy Spring
I. Kallon, Wheaton
M. Adkison, St. Andrew’s
K. Williams, Kennedy
N. Segura, The Heights
J. Bradshaw, Einstein
I. Grigsby, The Heights
D. Ojinnaka, Blake
A. Tarke, Gaithersburg
PPG
27.9
25.7
21.4
20.7
20.2
19.8
19.6
18.9
18.2
17.8
GIRLS
The 10 best girls’ basketball teams in
Montgomery County as ranked by
The Gazette’s sports staff:
Rank
1.
School
Record Pts
Damascus
9-2 60
2.
Paint Branch
8-1 53
3.
John F. Kennedy
6-1 47
4.
Good Counsel
6-4 43
4.
Poolesville
8-0 35
6.
Walt Whitman
7-2 32
7.
Montgomery Blair 7-1 22
8.
Seneca Valley
7-2 14
9.
Holy Child
8-3 13
10.
Holy Cross
5-8 6
Short track to success
SPEEDSKATERS FALL SHORT, BUT ON PATH TO OLYMPICS
Winston Churchill senior,
Richard Montgomery
sophomore have sights set on
Junior Worlds
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BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
STAFF WRITER
Winston Churchill High School
senior Shaner LeBauer’s main goal
at this point in his short track speedskating career has been the same
since he just missed a spot on the
2013 Junior World team last January:
Making the 2014 team.
There was no better way to prepare for that than a stop at the U.S.
Olympic Short Track Speedskating
Trials held Thursday through Sunday in Salt Lake City, Utah.
LeBauer, 17, who represents the
Potomac Speedskating Club based
out of the Wheaton and Cabin John
ice rinks, qualiﬁed for the elite competition by achieving certain designated cut times. The original ﬁeld of
25 was cut to 16 athletes in timed trials on the ﬁrst day. Though LeBauer
missed that cut, he said he appreciated the opportunity to compete
among the country’s best and that
the experience was a valuable one as
he moves forward in his career.
This month’s competition was
LeBauer’s ﬁrst major competition
since taking a little over a month
off in September and early October
to tend to a back injury — the core,
back and legs are vital muscle groups
in short track speedskating.
“This was deﬁnitely a step in the
right direction for me but really my
BY
ERIC GOLDWEIN
STAFF WRITER
John F. Kennedy High School’s Daysha Adams
has run into a few obstacles since 2009, when she
was a freshman starter on a competitive varsity
basketball team. A broken ankle, a season-ending
concussion and a thyroid condition kept her off
the court and away from the classroom for the
better part of the last three seasons.
But the ﬁfth-year senior is ﬁnally healthy this
winter, leading the Cavaliers to a 6-0 start (as of
Sunday) and playing the best basketball of her life.
“It feels great. It’s like, I’m kind of speechless
about it,” Adams said.
Adams, a shooting guard, is averaging a teamhigh 13.7 points per game after missing most of
the last two seasons with Graves’ disease, an autoimmune disease affecting the thyroid.
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the Hornets would help the Trojans forget about their slow start.
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See WRESTLER, Page B-2
Girls’ basketball: Following several
ailments, Adams returns to court to lead
Cavaliers
Gaithersburg at Damascus,
7 p.m. Friday. A road win against
PPG
19.2
18.6
18.4
18.0
17.8
17.6
17.5
16.3
15.8
15.4
See SPEEDSKATING, Page B-2
Northwest High School wrestler
Nick Davis is already a Montgomery
County and Class 4A/3A West Region
champion, but before graduating
there’s a couple other things he wants
to accomplish: 100 wins and a state
title.
“I’m looking forward to getting my
name all around the wall,” said Davis,
referring to the plaques and banners in
the Northwest wrestling room.
It’s not an unrealistic goal for the
senior, who has 82 career wins as of
Monday. The third-year varsity wrestler (120 pounds) has made signiﬁcant improvements each season. As a
freshman on junior varsity — his ﬁrst
year wrestling — he won most of his
matches and ﬁnished second place at
the county tournament.
“He stepped on the mat and he
was a natural,” Northwest coach Joe
Vukovich said. “... He’s been growing
ever since and he’s still learning.”
The next season on varsity he went
30-16, placing third at counties, fourth
at regions and making a trip to the
state tournament. And that, he said,
only left him wanting more.
The summer before his junior season he stepped up his training and the
hard work led to a 38-6 season, county
and region championships, and a third
place ﬁnish in the state tournament.
This season Davis is 14-2, with
losses against Damascus’ David
Creegan and St. Mary’s Ryken’s Steven
Simpson.
Since joining the team, Davis has
consistently made himself a better
wrestler by training, attending camps
and competing in the offseason, Vukovich said.
“You don’t coach competitors like
that very often. He’s a competitor, he
knows how to compete. You can see it
in his eyes,” Vukovich said.
The summer after his sophomore
year is when he fully bought into the
sport, ﬁnding tournaments against top
competition in Pennsylvania, Vu
n
3; Walter Johnson 1; Magruder 1.
TOP SCORERS
sights are set on the Junior World
Championships,” LeBauer said. “My
ultimate goal is to make the Junior
World team, I really saw this, my
time here, training for Olympic Trials
as [great preparation] for that.”
LeBauer, the 2013 U.S. Men’s
Junior 15-16 National Champion,
was one of two Montgomery County
teens to compete in Salt Lake City
this month. Richard Montgomery
sophomore April Shin (Virginiabased Dominion Speedskating), who
won the American Cup I in New York
in the fall, was on pace to ﬁnish in the
top ﬁve during the timed trials on the
ﬁrst day but was slowed by a poorlytimed bout with the ﬂu, according to
Potomac Speedskating Club’s Alison
Mittelstadt.
Kennedy senior overcomes health challenges
Others receiving votes: Blake,
Name, school
K. Prange, Damascus
S. Addison, Wootton
J. Karim-Duvall, Churchill
B. Beckwith, Quince Orchard
W. Carmack, Poolesville
D. Harris, Paint Branch
K. Meredith, Northwest
J. Craig, Seneca Valley
D. Lerner, Jewish Day
K. Porter, Bullis
ERIC GOLDWEIN
GREG DOHLER/THE GAZETTE
Daysha Adams of John F. Kennedy shoots against Paint Branch on Monday.
See SENIOR, Page B-2
TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE
Northwest High School varsity wrestler
Nick Davis (left) practices with teammate
Chris Swift on Thursday.
T HE G AZ ET T E
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014 r
Wheaton forward enjoys reunion with basketball ‘family’
After being suspended
for 10 games last year,
Kallon is a new player
n
BY
TRAVIS MEWHIRTER
STAFF WRITER
Wheaton High School boys’ basketball player Ibrahim Kallon had just
struck again with a dunk.
And Lerenzo Foote clamped his
hands to both sides of his face, howling
in delight, his jaw hanging so far open it
might as well have been dragging on the
Laurel High School gym ﬂoor.
“That’s two!” Foote said, wagging his index and middle ﬁngers to
the sparse crowd at the Laurel holiday
tournament on Dec. 27. “That’s two
bodies!”
Montgomery County faithful may
not be too familiar with Foote — he was
a key member of Eleanor Roosevelt’s
2013 state championship team that
played above the rim quite frequently.
He had seen plenty of dunks before.
Kallon’s pair of dunks at Laurel over
the winter break turned him into an
awestruck fan.
The ﬁrst, a baseline slam over a
Northwestern defender that earned
Kallon an and-one on the second possession of the game, seemed a lock to
be not just the best over the next 32
minutes, but of the day entirely — all
six games worth. And then came the
second, a ruthless right-hander over a
pair of Wildcats.
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Continued from Page B-1
Last season, which should
have been her senior year, she
didn’t play a single minute. She
didn’t even go into class; she was
homeschooled as a result of the
health problems.
It was difﬁcult being away
from her teammates and classmates, she said.
“That’s when I did most of
my thinking; what’s going to
happen next, where am I going
to end up?” Adams said.
The thyroid condition was
not diagnosed immediately and
at one point, Adams said, she
was going to doctors about once
a week to ﬁgure out what was
wrong.
When it was diagnosed, she
realized she needed to address
the problem by adjusting her
diet and exercise routine. She
cut out fast food and soda. She
started running on the track. She
put in extra work on the court.
“It’s funny because people
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Continued from Page B-1
been impressed by the “night and day”
turnaround he’s seen from his 6-foot-3
student-athlete.
“I wasn’t sure what he would do,
how he would react to me, to a new
coaching staff,” Basso-Luca said. “And
to be honest, it’s night and day this year.
We’ve had no problems whatsoever.”
With the 10-game suspension of
sorts last year, Kallon’s recruitment
process has gotten off to a late start.
Basso-Luca expects that, once word
gets out on Kallon, scouts from all levels
will be inquiring, because Kallon is no
one-trick pony. His demoralizing dunks
are captivating, yes, but he brings far
more to the table.
“Sometimes in practice he does
things where I just take a step back and
say, ‘Did that just happen?’” BassoLuca said. “And the important thing is
his skill level is increasing as well.”
With Northwestern sitting in a zone,
Basso-Luca had Kallon cut through the
middle, a hair below the free throw line,
to catch an entry pass. This would give
him a number of options: a pass to the
baseline cutters, a pull-up jumper, a
drive to the hoop, or a kick-out pass. All
of those inherently relied upon his ability to hit the jumper, which would force
the defense to step up and guard him
and would then open up everything
else. And he did — over and over again.
His consistency with the jump shot set
up Mikey Patterson layups on the baseline cuts or a pass out to the guards.
Kallon humbly attributes his
marked improvement to Hashim’s de-
that know Daysha, they didn’t
realize what she was going
through because she kept such
a positive spirit,” said teammate
and longtime friend Makeda
Wright.
The hard work is paying off
for Kennedy’s leading scorer.
“She turned into a completely
different player,” said Kennedy
coach Kevin Thompson.
Three-point shooting has
been the key to Adams’ earlyseason success. She has made 21
through six games, going 5-of-8
against Winston Churchill and
6-of-9 against Springbrook.
“You leave her open, there’s
a good chance it’s going down,”
Thompson said.
Thompson described this
year’s team as a “very motivated
group,” with Adams leading the
effort.
“She was at the forefront of
that. She didn’t miss a day of
offseason training, she was doing stuff on her own,” Thompson said.
Adams’ increased scoring
isn’t the only byproduct of her
improved health. In the first
quarter, she registered a 3.6
grade-point average and made
honor roll for the ﬁrst time.
“When I was in school at ﬁrst,
I didn’t really enjoy it. But now it’s
like, I really pay attention in class.
I just pay more attention to things
now,” Adams said.
She said her comeback
would not have been possible
without support from her teammates.
“They pushed me, they
wouldn’t just let me give up,”
Adams said. “Without them, I
don’t know what I would have
done.”
The Cavaliers are trying to
take a step forward after losing
to Walter Johnson in the playoffs
the last two seasons, with Adams
sitting out. In December, Kennedy defeated its playoff nemesis, 47-28, and Adams scored
nine points.
“She’s like my sister,” Wright
said. “I’m so glad she’s back to
the family.”
they should be major contenders in 2018 — LeBauer and Hong
agreed that short track skaters
typically start peaking in their
20s or later.
Though LeBauer has grand
aspirations to represent the
United States at the Olympics one
day, he is also academically ambitious and said he hopes to attend
an Ivy League school in 2014-15.
Balancing his grades and training was taxing this year but he
said once his college decision has
been made, he expects to be able
to refocus some energy on the ice.
“It’s all a work in progress
right now, I’m still young, there’s
time,” LeBauer said. “There
are some skaters approaching
30 who are still getting better.
... Right now I’m just worried
about Junior Worlds and getting
into college.”
The top four ﬁnishers at the
Junior National championships
scheduled for later this winter
qualify for the World team. LeBauer ﬁnished sixth a year ago
but has taken major strides this
season.
“I thought [Olympic trials]
was a pretty good opportunity,”
LeBauer said. “I feel ready for Juniors. After this year I have one
more year as a junior... My longterm goal is to try and make it to
the Olympics.”
Wheaton
High
School’s
Ibrahim Kallon is having
a career
year after
being suspended for
10 games
last season.
FILE PHOTO
cision to sit him out.
“It was huge, honestly,” he said. “I
felt like that year was going to be my
most important year, get my name out,
so not being able to help my team — it
really hurt. Every game I had to watch it
just hurt worse and worse and I know I
just wanted to be on that court.”
His presence has been felt. Of
jbeekman@gazette.net
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kovich said.
“He said to me, ‘I want to
go where the good kids are,’”
Vukovich said.
Vukovich and senior teammate Chris Swift had high
praise for Davis’ work ethic.
“I can say that he’s the only
kid on the team that puts in
that work,” Swift said.
Davis said he’ll take every
opportunity he can to gain an
edge; he sometimes goes on
four-mile runs after practice.
“That’s the mentality that
most people have after practices. ‘I already had practice,
I’m already tired.’ I’ll be getting
the extra training while they’re
doing nothing,” Davis said.
Vukovich said defeat is one
of Davis’ biggest motivators,
describing his ﬁrst loss of last
season as a turning point.
“He’s not one of those kids
that beats himself up, but he
shakes it off and watches the
video and says ‘I got to learn
from it,’” Vukovich said.
Davis is using last year’s
third-place ﬁnish in the state
tournament as motivation.
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Maryland, will conduct a public hearing on Monday, January 27,
2014, at 7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as it may be heard, in the
Council Chamber, Rockville City Hall, 111 Maryland Avenue,
Rockville, Maryland, in connection with Text Amendment
Application TXT2014-00237, Siena Corporation, Applicant.
The application proposes to amend Article 16, Section 25.16.03 of
Chapter 25, “Zoning,” of the Rockville City Code to add a separate
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Northwest High School varsity wrestler Nick Davis (left) practices with teammate Chris Swift on Thursday.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
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to testify at the hearing are asked to call (240) 314-8280, before 4:00
p.m. on the day of the hearing to place their names on the speakers’
list.
Mayor and Council of Rockville
By: Douglass A. Barber, City Clerk/Treasurer
Wheaton’s ﬁve losses, the largest margin was eight, and the Knights have
already scored more points in a game
(84 on Damascus) than any in Hashim’s
recent memory.
Kallon’s never been happier, saying, “I’m with family again.”
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LeBauer’s Potomac Speedskating teammate, 16-year-old
Thomas Hong of Laurel, not
only made the top 16 and the
NBC Sports broadcast, but his
11th-place finish included a
second-place ﬁnish in the B ﬁnal (eighth overall) of the men’s
500-meter event. LeBauer said
training alongside his good
friend keeps him motivated.
The top two ﬁnishers in each
event at trials advanced to represent Team USA in Sochi and
though the three Maryland teenagers aren’t on this year’s roster,
Frank Williams, Laurel’s leading
scorer who was on clock duty, actually
broke the clock for a brief second after
the dunk made him leap to his feet and
he kicked the wires out.
“It’s a thrill, honestly,” said Kallon,
a three-year varsity starter for Wheaton
after transferring in from High Point his
sophomore year. “Everybody watches
the NBA, college — [dunks] are what get
people excited. It gets your team hyped.”
Though Wheaton has struggled,
starting off the season dropping ﬁve of
its ﬁrst six, Kallon has been inarguably
the year’s breakout player. Through
eight games, during which the Knights
are 3-5, Kallon was averaging 21.5 points
per game, second in the county behind
John F. Kennedy’s Keif Williams.
All from a guy who sat out 10 of
the ﬁnal 12 games last year — in which
Wheaton went 3-9 — because he took
the sport he has since dominated for
granted.
“It was my decision working with
[his mother],” said former Wheaton
coach Sharief Hashim, who oversaw
Kallon for the forward’s ﬁrst two years
as well as the suspension. “He just
needed to focus more on being a better
student and a more determined man
about his future. He just had a little too
much freedom on his hands and he
didn’t see basketball as a privilege. He
was just being a teenager. It was good
for his growth.”
True to Hashim’s words, ﬁrst-year
coach Marco Basso-Luca, who headed
the junior varsity team last season, has
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“It was pretty devastating
to me but afterwards, I just like
picked up my game and came
back hard and got better,” Davis said.
He’s off to good start this
winter, but said he needs to get
in better wrestling shape if he
is going to defeat the state’s top
wrestlers, like Simpson.
“Pretty much I’m going
into practices working on my
endurance and trying to build
up skills to rise to the level
where I can eventually beat
him,” Davis said.
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014 r
Page B-3
County teams play well
at IAC-MAC challenge
Bullis, St. Andrew’s win
games in inaugural event
n
BY TRAVIS MEWHIRTER
STAFF WRITER
A peculiar sight brought a
smile to Bruce Kelley’s face on Saturday afternoon at St. Stephen’s/
St. Agnes. His Bullis School basketball players were cheering for
the very schools that, in just a few
days time, would be doing everything in their power to unseat
them from their Interstate Athletic
Conference throne.
Aaron Briggs, Russell Sangster, Jamaal Greenwood and the
rest of the Bulldogs were able to
put aside their disdain for their
IAC rivals during the inaugural
IAC-Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference challenge, an all-day event
hosted by the IAC’s St. Stephen’s/
St. Agnes pitting ﬁve teams from
each conference against one another.
BOYS BASKETBALL
NOTEBOOK
BY TRAVIS MEWHIRTER
“Ithinkeverybodywhoparticipated in it enjoyed it,” said Kelley,
whoseBulldogstoppedpreviously
undefeated Potomac (Va.), 61-41.
“It was important for our conference to get a win. Our guys were
cheeringfortheotherteamsinour
conference. It was a good event, a
wonderful event.”
By day’s end, the IAC claimed
the bragging rights, winning three
games to two on victories from
Bullis, St. Albans, and the host
Saints, while the MAC’s pair came
from St. Andrew’s and St. James.
“That’s great to play against
the local team from another conference,” said St. Andrew’s coach
Kevin Jones, whose Lions topped
Landon 76-71 in overtime. “It
was a great idea and I know all
the coaches thought it was a great
FILE PHOTO
Holton-Arm’s Emma Raynor swims the backstroke leg of the 200-yard medley relay during the 2013 ISL Swimming
& Diving Championships.
GREG DOHLER/THE GAZETTE
Russell Sangster (right) of Bullis School brings the ball down the courst
against Josh Holmes of North Point during the DMV Tip-Off Classic Dec. 21.
event and it went very well.”
The idea came as a high
school spin-off from the ACC-Big
Ten challenge, an annual event
held toward the beginning of the
college basketball season. The
IAC had been involved in a similar
conference-on-conference event
before with a league in Philadelphia. Three IAC teams would
travel to Philly while three from
Philadelphia would make the trek
down to the Washington, D.C. region, but the distance between the
conferences made the contests
“just a long road game, really,”
Kelley said.
“It never took off,” he said.
“There was nothing really special about playing a team who
gets back on the bus and goes to
Philly.”
The IAC and the MAC, however, share recruiting grounds.
No team would be packing up
for a three-or-so-hour ride to
Philadelphia. So, on Saturday, inconference rivalries became magnanimous. Bullis rooted for St.
Albans. St. Andrew’s rooted for St.
James. Basketball, for at least one
day, turned backwards.
“All the games, no matter
what the score was, were competitive,” Jones said. “The kids were
playing for pride for their schools
and pride for their conferences.”
The games were played under
IAC rules — 35 second shot clock,
three refs as opposed to two —
and all IAC teams were technically
the “home” team. The scheduling
was somewhat random, Jones
said, but coaches have ﬂoated out
the idea that next year’s should pit
the No. 1 ﬁnishing team in the IAC
against the No. 1 MAC, No. 2 IAC
against the No. 2 MAC and so on.
Defending MAC champion
Maret opted out of the contest,
which meant one team from the
IAC had to drop out to even up the
playing ﬁeld. Herb Krusen had
tentative plans for his Georgetown
Prep team to travel to Richmond
or Philadelphia on Saturday so he
voluntarily backed out.
“I thought it was a great idea,”
he said. “If Maret didn’t drop out
we would have stayed. Hopefully
we’re in it next year.”
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4A West race very competitive
Damascus upsets
Paint Branch; Holy Child
gets quick start
n
BY ERIC GOLDWEIN
STAFF WRITER
Thomas S. Wootton, Col.
Zadok Magruder and Gaithersburg are on top of the 4A West
Division standings as of Monday, with no clear favorite. Wootton (4-4, 2-0) has been playing
well, winning four of its past ﬁve
including a 64-59 victory over
Magruder.
Sheri Addison is averaging a
team-high 18.8 points to lead the
Patriots in scoring and getting to
the foul line nearly 10 times per
game. Cece and Ellie Kobylski,
twin sisters, average 24 points
combined for Wootton.
Magruder (5-2, 1-1) is off to
GIRLS BASKETBALL
NOTEBOOK
BY ERIC GOLDWEIN
a strong start after an 11-12 season, winning ﬁve of its ﬁrst seven
games. The Colonels have a balanced attack; Janel Brown (12.7),
Hannah Barr (12.1), Hope Randolph (10.3) and Adjowa Pinkrah
(8.7) lead the team in scoring.
Gaithersburg, meanwhile,
has struggled early. The Trojans (4-3, 1-1) have quality wins
against Walter Johnson and
Winston Churchill but have lost
to Poolesville, Seneca Valley and
most recently Magruder, 60-38.
The Trojans went 18-7 last season and before that appeared in
three straight state championship games, winning twice.
Swarmin’ Hornets sting
Panthers
Damascus handed Paint
Branch its ﬁrst loss of the season Saturday, winning 67-58 in
a matchup between the two top
Montgomery County teams. Free
throws were the key; the Swarmin’ Hornets scored almost 40
percent of their points from the
charity stripe and converted 16of-18 attempts in the ﬁnal period
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Damascus High School’s Kelli Prange drives toward the basket in Saturday’s
girls’ basketball game against Paint Branch.
to move to 8-2.
“Foul shooting really
helped us [close it out in the
fourth] and also to the girls’
credit, after too many turnovers in the third, I don’t think
we made more than one in
the fourth,” Damascus coach
Steve Pisarski said after the
game. “They really protected
the ball. Other than a few
spots, I think the girls did a really nice job [Saturday].”
Seniors Kelli Prange (19.8)
and Lauren Green (15.1) are
the leading scorers for Damascus. Prange, who scored 22
points against Paint Branch,
has scored in double-ﬁgures
every game this season.
Fast start for Holy Child
Connelly School of the Holy
Child is off to a hot start, capping off 2013 by winning the
Bulldog Holiday Tournament
championship. The Tigers (8-3
as of Sunday) are led by 5-foot-3
senior Talley Britt. The point
guard is averaging 9.6 points per
game, 2.5 assists and 2.4 steals
and scored 21 points against
Churchill to win the tournament
Most Valuable Player.
“Talley has really stepped
up as a senior leader,” Holy
Child coach Jamie Ready said
after the tournament. “She’s
our only senior captain, and
she’s really embraced her
teammates this year tremendously and has done an excellent job being a leader not only
on the ﬂoor but off [of it].”
Blake beating expectations
It took James H. Blake eight
games and a third of the season
to surpass last year’s win total.
After a 5-15 season, Blake is 6-2
as of Sunday, vying with Kennedy
and Paint Branch for a top spot in
the Montgomery 4A East. Senior
point guard Asha Henley (15.2)
and junior guard Citiana Negatu
(14.0) lead Blake, which defeated
Springbrook 42-36 on Saturday.
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Jennifer Beekman and John
Harris III contributed.
Holton-Arms trains in Florida
Panthers bonded
during training visit to
Florida International
University
n
BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
STAFF WRITER
This week’s record cold
weather could catch the
Holton-Arms School swimming and diving team a little
more off guard than usual.
The Panthers just returned
from a week-long team training trip in sunny Miami, Fla.
SWIMMING NOTEBOOK
BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
While this was Holton’s
ﬁrst trip to Florida International University, the Panthers have been taking team
trips every other year for
about 12 years, coach Graham Westerberg said. Holton
trained four hours each day,
two hours in the morning and
two more in the afternoon.
Though the Panthers would
have trained at their own
pool to stay in shape over the
break, Westerberg said there
is something special about
traveling as a team and training in a new environment.
“[These trips] beneﬁt the
team by bonding and certainly training hard,” Westerberg wrote in an email. “We
would train hard anyway over
the break, but with the ability
to train outside and practice
twice a day, it sets us up for
what I hope to be a great end
of the season.”
Holton has won eight Independent School League
titles in 10 years but was
usurped a year ago by a Katie Ledecky-led Stone Ridge
School of the Sacred Heart
team. The Panthers’ own
leading scorer, Caroline McTaggart, had to miss the meet
after receiving an invitation
to train at the U.S. Olympic
Training Center in Colorado
Springs. This year’s championship, scheduled for Jan. 24,
should be something special.
RM looks to continue
momentum
Saturday’s Division I
competition between Richard Montgomery and Montgomery Blair was pinned in
preseason by most Montgomery County Public Schools
coaches as the marquee
matchup on the boys’ side.
The Rockets have lived up to
their end and remain the only
undefeated boys’ team in
the county’s upper echelon
— that includes this week’s
win over two-time defending
Class 4A/3A state champion
Walter Johnson.
But the defending state
runner-up, Blair, has yet to
notch a win this winter. Richard Montgomery coach Aryn
Wheeler said the Rockets still
have to be careful not to overlook the still dangerous Blazers.
Blair is propelled by a
core of talented high scorers,
including Michael Thomas
and Brian Tsau, but Richard
Montgomery’s deeper lineup
is more beneﬁcial in a dualmeet atmosphere, giving the
Rockets an edge on paper.
This time last year it was
a close loss to Walter Johnson that gave Richard Montgomery the belief it could
compete among the county’s
best. Saturday’s win could be
a springboard into a historical
postseason.
“Defeating WJ this past
weekend, the boys were excited about that and it gives
them more conﬁdence going
into the end of the season,”
Wheeler said. “[Walter Johnson] isn’t as strong as they
were last year but just the
fact of knowing they did beat
the state champions, it gives
them momentum.”
Saturday’s
Winston
Churchill/Walter Johnson
meet features the two remaining undefeated girls’
teams. Though Churchill is
seeded to win that one, the
Wildcats have come out from
behind their male counterparts’ shadow for the first
time in recent years.
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Clarksburg’s Sewell plays all ﬁve positions
Boys’ basketball:
Versatility helps senior
lead Coyotes in scoring
n
BY
TRAVIS MEWHIRTER
STAFF WRITER
Three weeks ago, likely the
smallest center in Montgomery County sealed the game for
Clarksburg High School in the
Coyotes’ 59-51 victory against
Richard Montgomery. Xavier
Sewell’s offensive rebound
and put-back — captured, he
reminded a reporter, in video
— helped extend the lead, and
his two late blocks in the lane
all but determined the outcome.
Two days later, Xavier
Sewell played point guard.
Sewell, the position-less,
6-foot-2 leading scorer for the
Coyotes (14 points per game as
of Friday), rotates through all
ﬁve slots on the court, banging around in the post against
Richard Montgomery then
running with the Gaithersburg guards all the while being
shifted between either wing
throughout.
“He’s a utility guy,” coach
G.J. Kissal said. “He’s everything we need him to be. He’s
got a variety of skills who can
ﬁll any role we need in any
game. He’s kind of a jack of all
trades. His best quality is that
he can do whatever we need
him to do. His ability to have
multiple qualities is his best
quality.”
In a 64-61 overtime loss to
James H. Blake on Dec. 12, in
which he scored a season-high
24 points, the flavor of the
night was his 3-point shooting.
He made four, which is what
Kissal estimated to be right
around his grand total from all
of last year.
“In some games we need
him to score. In other games
we’ll have him guard the best
perimeter player or best post
player,” Kissal said. “And in
others he’ll have four or ﬁve
big assists. It’s whatever we
need, and he can do it.”
Sewell has embraced this
“utility man” role, enamored
by the fact that there is no task
on the ﬂoor he cannot do, no
limit to what Kissal can ask of
him.
“I like to do whatever it
takes for me to get the win,”
he said.
Last year, that meant
voluntarily relinquishing a
starting role he had right-
GREG DOHLER/THE GAZETTE
Xavier Bradley (right) of Northwest High School looks to get past Xavier
Sewell of Clarksburg during a 2013 summer league game.
fully earned so another player
could retain the mental satisfaction of being “a starter.”
Over summer, it meant improving the tangibles his game
lacked, namely a 3-point shot
and ball-handling, to shoulder
some of point guard D.J. Singleton’s load.
“Oh, man, a lot,” Singleton
said when asked how much
easier life has been with the
expansion of Sewell’s game.
“Last year, his role was to get
rebounds and garbage buckets, but his jump shot has
improved a lot and his ball
handling is a lot better. Coach
has given him more of a green
light this year.”
And a direct result of this
green light? Open looks for
Singleton, and more of them.
The point guard, who doubles as a consistent threat from
the outside, estimated that 80
percent of the uncontested
3-pointers or jump shots he
has put up this year are a
product of Sewell’s newly discovered ability to draw the defense’s attention. Last season,
averaging what Sewell recalled
as “about four points a game,”
he wasn’t too much of a concern, so the opposition could
focus more on Josh Hardy
and Singleton. The added distraction of Sewell has created
opportunities abound for his
teammates both frontcourt
and back.
“He is certainly the most
improved player from last year
to this year,” Kissal said. “And
his conﬁdence has improved
tremendously. He really put in
the work.”
In 30 optional pre-season
workouts, Sewell attended 27,
pounding through ball-handling drills and putting up a
minimum of 300 shots per day.
“It pays off for him,” Kissal said. “Part of it is genetics
and part of it is hard work too.
Last year he always had a sense
of passing the ball and vision
of the court but his ability to
shoot has really opened up the
court for him.”
The softened touch on the
perimeter has been the “major
identiﬁable piece” of improvement, as Kissal says, but less
noticeable has been his ball
handling. Sewell wasn’t necessarily a bad ball-handler
last year, but “he wasn’t super efﬁcient,” the coach said.
“He would try to do too much
with it instead of using his athletic ability to make one quick
move to get by him.
“Being 6-2 and nearly 200
pounds and very athletic, there
aren’t too many kids at our
level that can stop him.”
After all, there aren’t too
many centers who can match
up with a 6-2 guard, and there
aren’t too many guards who
can match up with a 6-2 center.
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Richard Montgomery’s boys earn some respect
Rockets on pace for ﬁrst
winning season in four years
n
BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
STAFF WRITER
BILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE
Richard Montgomery High School’s P.J. Glasser (left) looks to get past
Montgomery Blair’s Danny Canary on Monday.
winter and has dropped very few
in general the last three years.
“This generation of RM basketball doesn’t know anything
but winning,” second-year coach
DavidBreslawsaid.“They’vedone
nothing but be successful all their
games. They can’t conceive of us
having a losing team. The majority of their time at RM has been
mostly winning so they don’t necessarily see this as us putting RM
back on the map, it’s just business
as usual. It’s nice to have that.”
The rigors of varsity basketball
are an entirely different ballgame
— Breslaw said the Rockets have
quickly learned to up the intensity
in practice — but four of Richard
Montgomery’s top six scorers are
part of a junior class that has been
successful together both for the
Rockets’ junior varsity and Rockville Stars AAU team and they’ve
immediately meshed well with a
relatively small but talented senior
class.
Richard Montgomery was
largely a one-man show last winter. Justin Senou led the Rockets
in points per game (19.9), assists
(4.5) and steals (2.5) and ﬁnished
BILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE
Richard Montgomery High School’s Renzo Farfan (center) looks to pass
through Montgomery Blair’s double-team defense on Monday.
second with 6.5 rebounds per
game. This year they have a new
look both literally and ﬁguratively.
“Last year our best chance
was using our athleticism and
pressingtheentiregame,”Breslaw
said. “We don’t press as much this
year. We had one reliable scorer,
it’s a completely different team,
we’re not pressing all game, we’re
slowing the game down.”
Rather than run the ﬂoor the
Rockets are propelled by their
ability to share responsibilities.
Junior guard Renzo Farfan, who
said playing quarterback in the
fall helped him feel more comfortable with his more prominent role
on the basketball court this winter, is technically the go-to scorer
with his team-high 13.5 points.
But there are six players with six
or more points per game, including senior Noah White (11.7),
who shot 7-for-7 from behind the
3-point line and scored the gamewinner in Friday’s 62-59 win over
Bethesda-Chevy Chase.
“We track how many passes
we make per possession and how
many other teams make and on
average most teams pass the ball
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The Richard Montgomery
High School boys’ basketball team
didn’t expect its opponents to
have much respect for them early
this winter. After all, the Rockets
returned only one starter from
a team that couldn’t post a winning record behind the efforts of
the county’s leading scorer a year
ago. Richard Montgomery hasn’t
eclipsed the .500 mark since 200910, but seven teams have learned
their lesson to start 2013-14.
Richard Montgomery’s (7-2)
fast start before the holiday break
is just three wins away from last
year’s overall total and while it
seems like this level of success
might be a new concept to anyone that’s been in the program
in recent years, many of the current Rockets don’t actually know
anything other than winning.
Though Richard Montgomery’s
varsity team hit a rough patch the
past few years — the Rockets had
only one losing season from 2005
to 2010 — the junior varsity team
hasbeenamongthecounty’sbest.
Richard Montgomery’s junior varsity team lost only one game last
around four passes per possession,” Breslaw said. “The main
thing is keeping other teams
from scoring. Our goal is to maintain control of the ball. We like
to average ﬁve or six passes per
possession. If we do that, we’re
controlling the ball two thirds of
the game.”
Leading the Rockets in the
back court is senior PJ Glasser
who 6-foot-5 junior center David
Bottenberg said has a knack for
ﬁnding his teammates in open
spaces and is a fantastic facilitator.
The Rockets’ ability to move the
ball around the ﬂoor also opens
up space for Bottenberg and Nick
Jackson (6-5) inside. Both also
have high ﬁeld goal percentages,
Breslaw said.
Though the early success has
not come as a surprise to those
within the program, Glasser, Farfan and White agreed that Richard
Montgomery cannot get complacent with early season success as
it heads into the heart of its season
and Montgomery 4A South Division play.
“This is a big time to see where
we are as a team, it’s important for
us to keep improving on things we
need to improve on and build for
playoffs,” Glasser said. “We want
to win every game but it’s all about
playoffs and being the best team
we can be.”
MOVIE REVIEW
&
The Gazette’s Guide to
Arts & Entertainment
‘SECRET’S’ OUT
Ben Stiller’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” meanders.
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‘Stars’
BY CARA HEDGEPETH
STAFF WRITER
THE
Ben Allison will perform
at The Mansion at
Strathmore on Friday
and Saturday.
J
GREG AIELLO
SILVER SPRING STAGE
THE BARD,
SQUEEZED
‘Complete Works’ told by three
actors with the audience’s help
n
BY WILL C. FRANKLIN
STAFF WRITER
(From left) Andrew Greenleaf,
Jennifer Osborn and Steven
Snapp will bring Shakespeare
to life in an interesting way
starting Friday when they
perform “The Complete
Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” at Silver
Spring Stage.
PAM BURKS
As Romeo once said to Horatio before
addressing Julius Caesar, “The play’s the
thing …”
Actually, the characters in William
Shakespeare’s plays never did that, but
thanks to playwrights Adam Long, Daniel
Singer and Jess Winﬁeld, theatergoers can
enjoy every play and sonnet written by the
Bard – in just a couple of hours.
“The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” which features three
actors giving the audience a condensed version of the plays, will run weekends at Silver
Composer, recording artist
looks to ﬁlm for inspiration
n
Spring Stage from Jan. 10 to Feb. 1.
As one might imagine, and because a
cast of three portrays all of the roles Shakespeare has to offer, the rules of traditional
theater — not breaking the fourth wall, improvising lines, not breaking character, etc.
— do not apply here.
Director William T. Flemming said it
wasn’t difﬁcult to direct a show such as
“Complete Works,” but it does involve
bringing a different set of preconceptions to
See BARD, Page B-8
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(ABRIDGED)
n When: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays,
Jan. 10 to Feb. 1; 2 p.m. Sundays,
Jan. 19 and Jan. 26
n Where: Silver Spring Stage, 10145
Colesville Road, Silver Spring
n Tickets: $18-$20
n For information: 301-593-6036;
ssstage.org
azz composer, bassist and recording
artist Ben Allison and the Ben Allison Band will make their Strathmore
debut at The Mansion on Friday
night. The group, featuring Brandon
Seabrook, Steve Cardenas and Allison
Miller, will also hold a master class
Saturday afternoon.
Allison released his latest full-length album, “The Stars Look Very Different Today,”
on Dec. 3. The record’s title is a nod to the
David Bowie song by the same name and the
1969 sci-ﬁ ﬁlm, “2001: A Space Odyssey.” It’s
the musician’s ﬁrst self-produced and selfmixed album.
“There are a lot of ﬁlm references on the
record,” Allison said. “As I’m sitting down to
write music, I’m just calling on things that I
like …”
A New Haven, Conn., native, Allison grew
up in what he called, “the golden age of television.”
“I was watching shows produced in the
1960s and 1970s,” Allison said. “Many great
composers were
writing music for
television. That’s
part of what I
BEN ALLISON
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mind and I like listening to music in
that way. It’s purposefully vague
and that just leaves the music really open to
letting the mind wander. I want audiences to
hear what they hear … That’s probably why
ﬁlm music is such a big inﬂuence on me.”
Though technically a jazz musician, Allison draws musical inﬂuences from a range
of genres including electronic dance music,
folk and soul. His musical tastes have been
diverse since he was a young boy.
“The ﬁrst album I ever bought was the
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McKay at the Mansion
Modern
Singer-songwriter Nellie McKay will perform at 7:30
p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Thursday at the Mansion at Strathmore
in North Bethesda. McKay, who made her Broadway debut in 2006 starring as Polly Peachum in the Roundabout
Theatre Company’s limited-run of “The Threepenny
Opera,” returns to Strathmore on the heels of her turn in
another New York hit, “Old Hats,” a collaboration with
master clowns Bill Irwin and David Shiner. Tickets are
$37. For more information, visit www.strathmore.org.
MYTHS
Jon Mort’s “Local
Legends,” a collection of large-scale
graphite works
depicting mythological gods, goddesses and heroes
as portrayed by
members of the
Sandy Spring community, is currently
on view to Feb. 23
at the Sandy Spring
Museum. An opening
reception is scheduled for
5:30-8 p.m. Saturday. Pieces
range in subject from ancient
interpretations of the planets to
well-known classical epics such as
Homer’s “Odyssey.” For more information, visit www.sandyspringmuseum.org.
“Local
Legends,”
a collection of original
works by artist Jon
Mort, is now on view
to Feb. 23 at the Sandy
Spring Museum. An opening
reception is scheduled for 5:30-8 p.m.
Saturday at the museum. Pictured: “Heliosphere.”
JON MORT
Graceful beauty
RICK GONZALEZ
Nellie McKay will perform Thursday at the Music Center at
Strathmore.
New Year, ‘New Works’
Opening Thursday at Gallery B in Bethesda, “New
Works on Paper” will feature the talents of local artists
Cathy Kwart, Catherine Levinson, Bonny Lundy and Virginia Mahoney. An opening reception is scheduled for 6-9
p.m. Friday at the gallery, coinciding with the Bethesda
Art Walk. The show is on view to Feb. 1. Gallery hours are
noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. For more
information, including applications for artists and art curators interested in showing their work at Gallery B, visit
www.bethesda.org.
The Montgomery Art Association will showcase the works of featured artist Natalie Falk throughout January at the MAA Gallery in
the Westﬁeld Wheaton Mall. An opening reception is scheduled for
1-5 p.m. Sunday at the gallery. Falk’s talents span the freedom of
oil paints to the ﬁne detail of colored pencil, while a lifelong love of
horses is evident in her equine portraiture. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.
to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday.
For more information, visit www.montgomeryart.org.
“First Chair, Violin,” color pencil, by Natalie Falk.
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CATHERINE LEVINSON
FROM NATALIE FALK
“Roses, Green and Gold,” color pencil, by Natalie Falk.
The work of Bethesda’s Catherine Levinson will be on view to
Feb. 1 at Gallery B. An opening reception is scheduled for Friday
at the gallery.
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A leap of imagination
Young girl teams up with
Lord Krishna in premiere of
one-woman show
n
BY
VIRGINIA TERHUNE
STAFF WRITER
Lots of children have imaginary friends. Meena’s is the
Hindu deity, Lord Krishna.
In the young girl’s imagination, the two join forces to battle
the Worry Machine, a foe of
Krishna’s that is destroying the
world while also representing
the problems that Meena is facing in her real life.
Her father has died, and
her impoverished mother, who
works several jobs, is chronically ill.
“She can’t afford the medicine she needs,” said Anu Yadav,
social activist, playwright and solo
performer for “Meena’s Dream.”
Like her mother, Meena
worries about how “to pay the
rent, the electric bill, food for
her daughter and medicine for
herself.”
“These are impossible
choices,” said Yadav, 36, who as
9-year-old Meena, taps into her
young and hopeful imagination
as a way to deal with poverty and
her mother’s illness.
Presented by the Forum
Theatre, the 80-minute play
runs Jan. 8-18 at the Round
House Theatre in Silver Spring.
“Meena’s Dream” evolved
from the thesis Yadav wrote to
earn a Master of Fine Arts degree
in performance from the University of Maryland, College Park,
in May 2013. A UMD undergrad,
artist and performer for 10 years,
she joined the Forum Theatre last
summer as an ensemble player.
In her one-woman play, Yadav plays multiple roles,including
Krishna and a pharmacist who
does not give her mother the
medicine she needs.
“It’s an interesting challenge
[to write and perform in the
same play],” she said. “The performer needs the script to be set,
but as the author, you’re always
wanting to change things and
keep thinking about the story.”
Accompanying Yadav are
three musicians who perform a
live blend of South Indian classicalmusicandAmericanjazz.They
are Anjna Swaminathan (violin)
and Rajna Swaminathan (drum),
both graduates of the University
of Maryland, College Park, and
pianist Sam McCormally.
Drawn from life
The coming-of-age play,
which takes place in the Midwest, is based on Yadav’s own
experiences as an IndianAmerican girl. Yadav’s father
died when she was 12, and her
mother was left to support her
and her brother, she said.
She was also perceived as
different by her classmates.
“I was raised a Hindu in
Iowa, which is not exactly a
PHOTOS FROM C. STANLEY PHOTOGRAPHY
Musicians Anjna Swaminathan and Rajna Swaminathan collaborated with
Sam McCormall to create a blend of South Indian Carnatic music and jazz
for the premiere of “Meena’s Dream,” written and performed by Anu Yadav
for Forum Theatre.
Hindu state,” Yadav said. “One
of my school friends was concerned that I was going to go to
hell. I just would try to get beyond our differences, because
otherwise you wouldn’t have
any friends.”
Krishna challenges young
Meena to move beyond thinking like a victim and think more
about taking action in the world,
said director Patrick Crowley.
“It’s about using her imagination for something better. ... It’s
about not defeating yourself before you start,” he said.
Political questions
In 2006, Yadav also enlisted
Crowley to direct her onewoman play, “’Capers,” about
a battle between people living
in public housing community
in Southeast Washington, D.C.,
and the government officials
who want to tear it down.
It was a play about “class
lines and wealth and poverty,”
Yadav said.
In both plays, Yadav poses
underlying political questions
about why poverty exists in a
country of such afﬂuence.
“In our economic systems
and social networks, we’re supposed to helping each other
out,” she said.
People don’t have to accept
conditions because “it’s just the
way it is,” Yadav said.
By dealing with social issues
through theater, music and performance, she hopes that audiences will think more about the
situations around them.
“The medium ... allows
people to be opened up and
moved,” she said.
At the Forum Theatre, which
is dedicated to presenting plays
that are accessible and affordable for everyone, visitors may
reserve a seat in advance for $20
or pay what they think is a fair
price at the door.
Discussions are also scheduled following some performances.
“If there are people from
different backgrounds all in the
MEENA’S DREAM
n When: Jan. 8-18 (call for
show times); Discussions
after Wednesday, Thursday
and Saturday evening
performances
n Where: Round House
Theatre, 8641 Colesville
Road, Silver Spring
n Tickets: $10 in advance for
previews, Jan. 8-9; $20 in
advance with guaranteed
seat; Pay what you want at
the door
n For information: 1-800838-3006, 240-644-1390,
Forum-theatre.com
same room ... [there’s a] possibility for change,” Yadav said.
Yadav also hopes that individuals in the audience will
realize that “they’re not alone
and that many other people are
dealing with [problems].”
“I’m honored if it prompts
someone in the audience to
share their own story,” she said.
vterhune@gazette.net
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Forum Theatre premieres “Meena’s Dream,” written by actress Anu Yadav, who plays several characters during the
solo performance. The play, about a young girl who uses her imagination to deal with loss and poverty, is running
Jan. 8-18 at the Round House Theatre in Silver Spring.
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AT THE MOVIES
‘Secret Life’ is sort of lifeless
BY
MICHAEL PHILLIPS
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
So. Turns out the only
thing the prototypical American milquetoast Walter Mitty
needed to get happy was a little
stubble and a lavish travel budget.
In director Ben Stiller’s
earnest-but-screwy go at “The
Secret Life of Walter Mitty,”
Stiller himself takes the role of
the daydreaming, “yes, dear”
fellow introduced in a wee-buthardy 1939 James Thurber short
story. Thurber sold it to The
New Yorker and eventually his
grey little man with prodigious
dreams of heroism was given the
Hollywood treatment in a postwar Danny Kaye vehicle.
Stiller has no interest in
delivering the comic mania of
Kaye. Rather, his Mitty is the
center of an easygoing self-actualization travelogue in which the
title character, here conceived as
a photo archivist for a dying Life
magazine, lurches from Greenland to Afghanistan, searching
THE SECRET LIFE OF
WALTER MITTY
n 2 stars
n PG; 125 minutes
n Cast: Ben Stiller, Kristen
Wiig, Sean Penn, Adam
Scott, Shirley MacLaine,
Patton Oswalt Directed by
Ben Stiller
for an elusive photojournalist
played by Sean Penn. (For the
record, Life actually died several years ago.) In screenwriter
Steven Conrad’s story a crucial
missing image, captured by the
photographer but misplaced
under Mitty’s usually eagle-eyed
watch, is desperately needed for
Life’s ﬁnal cover. Recovering it
may be the key to Mitty hanging
onto his old-school, defiantly
pre-digital job.
The irony of a story hinging on a tiny scrap of film
forced to compete with a sea of
computer-generated imagery
is pretty odd. The movie feels
uncertain as to its own tones
and intentions. Fantasy blowouts, such as Stiller battling a
slimy corporate takeover artist
played by Adam Scott), offer
a chuckle or two. Then we’re
back to the other movie, the
one Stiller clearly had more interest in making.
Mitty is in love with a coworker played by Kristen Wiig.
The scenes between Stiller
and Wiig have real charm, and
Stiller’s enough of a director to
know when to simply let a leisurely patch of dialogue unfold
in a single shot (in this firstconversation case, on a Manhattan sidewalk). Elsewhere,
though, “Walter Mitty” operates
on a scale that feels way, way
off. Once Mitty leaves the conﬁnes of his shrinking life and
crosses time zones in pursuit of
the photographer, the seams of
the picture threaten to split. Is a
21st century ﬁlm about a Walter
Mitty type really best served by
gorgeous, eye-popping location
shooting on a near-$100 million
budget?
WILSON WEBB
Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) and legendary photographer Sean O’Connell (Sean Pean) enjoy the view.
Shirley MacLaine has a
pleasant scene or two as Mitty’s mom; Patton Oswalt works
shrewd wonders as the voice
(and then the face) of an eHarmony dating representative trying to get Mitty to goose up his
proﬁle. The ﬁlm has a persistent
and careful sheen. It looks good.
It is, in fact, preoccupied with
looking good. If this sounds like
faint praise, I’m afraid it is.
Lead could ﬁnd stardom ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’
BY
MICHAEL PHILLIPS
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
(From left) Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake and Adam Driver in “Inside Llewyn
Davis.”
folkie lover — he cuts a quickand-dirty Sputnik-era novelty
record, “Please Mr. Kennedy,”
one of the film year’s musical and cinematic highlights.
His partners in the studio are
Jean’s husband, played by Justin Timberlake, and a self-styled
cowboy played by Adam Driver.
Here, behind the microphone,
as in the film’s other performance and club scenes, Llewyn
morphs into his better self.
“Inside Llewyn Davis” draws
its sardonic comic mileage on
presenting these and other
heavenly musical sequences in
contrast to all the aggravation,
self-induced or otherwise, accumulating around Llewyn, across
a busy, blurry week in his life.
As a fond imagining of a distinct locale at a speciﬁc cultural
time, the ﬁlm is remarkable. As
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PHOTOS BY ALISON ROSA
Oscar Isaac in Joel and Ethan Coen’s “Inside Llewyn Davis.”
much as they’re besotted by the
Village circa ’61, the Coens are
Midwesterners (they grew up
in suburban Minneapolis), and
in the Midwest road trip section
of the movie, you know from
whence they came. Pinning his
hopes on an audition at Chi-
cago’s Gate of Horn nightclub,
Llewyn has grabbed a ride out
of Manhattan with a heroinaddicted jazzbo, played by John
Goodman, and his sidekick
(Garrett Hedlund). They stop at
a Paul Harvey Oasis restaurant
hanging over some nowhere
section of interstate highway,
in the middle of the night. Every
detail in production designer
Jess Gonchor’s work is inspired
— a little sad, a little eerie, completely attuned to a story that,
at heart, is a lament for the man
Llewyn will never become.
This being the Coens, the
movie happens also to be funny
about it. The real star of the ﬁlm
is the cat belonging to Llewyn’s
Columbia University academic
pals, the Gorfeins, played with
wide-eyed optimism by Ethan
Phillips and Robin Bartlett.
Llewyn, who locks himself out
of the Gorfeins’ apartment along
with their cat, travels with the feline downtown by subway. The
point-of-view shots of the cat
watching the signage whiz by
are things of casual genius. The
cat runs away, eventually, and
as much as it’s about a particular
personality type, and as much
as it owes to Dave Von Ronk’s
Village memoir “The Mayor
of MacDougal Street,” “Inside
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Sho F.
Scott
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Theater
603 Edmonston Dr.
Rockville, MD 20851
240-314-8690
www.rockvillemd.gov/theatre
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Rockville Little Theatre Presents
An Inspector Calls
by J.B. Priestly
The family is celebrating
when a mysterious inspector
comes to call. It becomes clear
that they are implicated in a
young women’s death. Join us
for an exciting whodunnit
that will keep you guessing
to the very end.
Jan. 24 and 25 at 8 p.m.
Jan. 26 at 2 p.m.
135210G
$18 to $16
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“Inside Llewyn Davis” takes
place in winter 1961, just before
Bob Dylan makes the scene. The
scene is the Greenwich Village
folk music universe, a few ﬁnite blocks of an island that, in
the hands of cinematographer
Bruno Delbonnel, looks and
feels like a beautiful, long-ago
smudge in motion.
Crashing here and there,
on couches uptown and downtown, Llewyn has a guitar, a
voice and some talent. Thanks
to Oscar Isaac’s extraordinarily
subtle and shrewd performance, the surly protagonist of
Joel and Ethan Coen also comes
equipped with the kind of sardonic charisma that compensates for a lot, including his own
defeatism.
Llewyn doesn’t want to “sell
out,” though to pay for an abortion — Carey Mulligan plays
the seething Jean, his sometime
Llewyn Davis” is about how one
man keeps losing one cat.
Death is all over the story.
Llewyn’s merchant marine father is near the end. The climactic scene with his decrepit old
man ﬁnds Llewyn managing to
redeem himself in song, at least
momentarily. Llewyn’s former
musical partner has recently
committed suicide, leaving
Llewyn to wonder if he has the
stuff to be a solo act. F. Murray
Abraham plays a ﬁctional version of Bud Grossman, in the
Chicago Gate of Horn scene,
one of the ﬁlm’s best. This is
Llewyn’s chance, and when the
verdict comes, it’s the only one
that makes sense for this ﬁlm,
this performer, this world.
Folk standards such “500
Miles,” “The Death of Queen
Anne” and “Dink’s Song” infuse
the movie, and as in the Coens’
“O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
T Bone Burnett has done ﬁrstrate work supervising the musical landscape. The ﬁlm, I think,
falls just a tick or two below the
Coens’ best work, which for me
lies inside “A Serious Man” and
“Fargo.” The script starts and
ﬁnishes with an implicit question, one acknowledged by the
Coens in the production notes.
What would cause anyone to
beat up a folk singer? This is
how the movie begins, in an alley, behind a club. Something in
the ﬁlm’s ending frustrates; it’s
meant as a melancholy fadeout,
but the real ending, I think, lies a
little earlier, with Llewyn in the
car, at night, wondering if he
should take the Ohio turnoff in
order to check up on a unread
chapter in his sorry life.
Anyway. Some quibbles. But
it’s well worth seeing. Isaac isn’t
playing Bud Grossman’s idea of
a star, yet he may well become
one thanks to “Inside Llewyn
Davis.”
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
n 3.5 stars
n R; 105 minutes
n Cast: Oscar Isaac, Justin
Timberlake, Adam Driver,
Carey Mulligan, John
Goodman
n Directed by the Coen
brothers
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Wine lovers, plan your Pinot perusing vacation early
The answer to where a discerning wine lover should go on
their next vacation has become
extremely easy to answer. Plan a
trip to Oregon, speciﬁcally during the last week of July, for the
annual International Pinot Noir
Celebration. Held in the pic-
GRAPELINES
BY LOUIS MARMON
turesque Willamette Valley on
the campus of Linﬁeld College
in McMinnsville, Ore., IPNC is
among the ﬁnest wine and food
experiences anywhere in the
world. In fact, before you read
any further, go to their website
(www.ipnc.com) and register
for next year’s event before they
sell out. Then come back to this
article for some more speciﬁcs
and look for next month’s which
will feature recommendations
of special places to visit and extraordinary folks to meet. You
can ﬁgure out your ﬂights and
accommodations later.
Oregon undisputedly pro-
duces some the world’s finest
wines, especially their distinctive
Pinot Noirs, but also some tasty
whites including Chardonnay and
Pinot Gris. However Pinot Noir
remains supreme. It all began
with David Lett who planted the
area’s ﬁrst Pinot Noir at the Eyrie
Vineyards in 1966 and there are
now over 12 million acres and 400
some wineries focusing on the varietal. Along with the astonishing
growth in production has been
the amazingly rapid rise in quality
which is attributed, in large part,
to the very collaborative spirit
among Oregon’s winemakers.
Another pioneer, Josh Bergstrom,
noted that “Oregon really started
out with a bunch of well-educated
hippies sitting around in meadows passing bottles, critiquing
each other. …That spirit is still
very much alive today.”
There currently isn’t a lot of
counterculture to be seen and
yet you would be hard pressed
to ﬁnd a more friendly, enjoyable and intriguing group of
people than those making Pinot
Noir in Oregon. McMinnsville
and the surrounding Willa-
mette Valley have the look and
feel of Sonoma about 30 years
ago. Even the inﬂux of several
hundred IPNC attendees did
not appear to disturb the quaint
comfort of the town nor the lowkey attitude of the locals.
Now in its 28th year, IPNC is
truly a celebration of all things
Pinot Noir. The main focus
upon Oregon wines but there
are ample opportunities to explore other Pinot iterations including those from Burgundy,
California and New Zealand.
The highlights include small
group winery visits and guided
vineyard tours led by featured
winemakers who discuss topics such as Oregon AVA terroirs,
planting strategies and techniques to achieve balance and
accurate expression of the local environment. Sounds a bit
geeky, but standing in the middle of a vineyard with Oregon
winemaking pioneer Ken Wright
while he points out the different
geologic attributes and history
of the Willamette Valley is both
thought-provoking and entertaining. There is also a “Univer-
sity of Pinot” that offers a range
of seminars led by such notables
as Terry Thiese, Eric Asimov and
Allen Meadows that focus on the
intriguing ability of Pinot Noir
to transcend into a “harmony of
beauty, distinctiveness, personality and soul.”
But the heart of IPNC is the
opportunity to taste literally
hundreds of Pinot Noirs while
speaking to the people responsible for crafting the wines. This
includes wine-centered lunches
catered by splendid local chefs
and afternoon alfresco tastings that encourage attendees
to discuss and compare wines
from recent vintages produced
around the world. These are followed by the exceptional “Grand
Dinner” on Friday night and the
legendary IPNC “Salmon Bake”
dinner on Saturday which features wild salmon roasted on
alder stakes. At each meal IPNC
provides ample wines and even
more are poured by many of the
attendees who have brought
their own bottles to share. IPNC
is certainly a remarkable Pinot
experience.
ALLISON
Continued from Page B-5
‘Rite of Springs,’” Allison said. “The second
record was Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumors.’”
Allison’s varied taste has remained intact
over the years as the musician has built a career which includes appearances on more
than 50 albums by assorted artists.
The latest incarnation of Allison’s
own band began one and a half years ago.
Seabrook, Cardenas and Miller are all band
leaders for their own ensembles, something
Allison credits for the Ben Allison Band’s
success.
“Because they are all seeing things
through the eyes of a band leader, they
have great perspective,” Allison said. “They
think compositionally … which really gives
the band a unique sound; a sound that’s
more than the sum of its parts … I feel very
fortunate to have such high-level individuals in my group.”
As is the nature of the jazz world, Allison and his band mates play with several different ensembles. And even when
they’re playing as the Ben Allison Band,
improvisation plays a major role in their
performances.
“We’ve been playing together long
enough that I can often start a tune and everyone will know what I’m doing,” Allison
said. “It’s not always well-planned in advance.”
In addition to recording and performing,
Allison is deeply involved in music advocacy,
working toward artist empowerment and
musician’s rights.
“It began early in my career when I was
the co-founder and artistic director of the
Jazz Composition Collective,” Allison said.
The Jazz Composition Collective was
a nonproﬁt, musician-run organization
based out of New York City and dedicated
to creating an environment where musicians could freely create and develop new
music.
“There was very much of a very community-oriented feel to that group,” Allison
said.
When the collective dissolved in 2005,
Allison said it left “a hole.”
“I was used to the idea of expressing
some of my political beliefs through an arts
organization,” he said. “Fostering art, build-
BARD
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the table.
“The actors that I’m working with in this production …
are very, very good realistic
performers,” Flemming said.
“They’re being thrown into an
area that they weren’t as comfortable with.”
Flemming said his actors
— Andy Greenleaf, Jennifer
Osborn and Steve Snapp —
each brought a little something different to the play.
Snapp, according to Flemming, has a really good feel for
the over-the-top presentation
of the show, whereas Greenleaf and Osborn are modern
play “mavens.”
The show has a certain
amount of improvisation from
the actors, but Flemming was
quick to point out that with the
improvisation being rehearsed
so much, it’s very much like
part of the script now.
“[The audience] is going
to see very little improvisation,” Flemming said. “… I
did not want to just duplicate
the original production of the
creators of this show. So I had
the actors play with the script,
play with the action on stage
and the result was very, very
different than what you would
see if you were to watch the
ﬁlm of ‘Complete Works,’ or
something like that.”
While the audience gets to
DANCES
IN THE ARTS
Hollywood Ballroom, Jan.
10, drop-in lessons from 7:30-9
p.m., West Coast Swing Dancing
with Dance Jam Productions at
9 p.m. ($15); Jan. 11, Latin Night
with Mr. Mambo, workshops
from 8-10 p.m., dance from 10
p.m. to 2 a.m. ($18 for workshop
and dance; $15 for dance only);
Jan. 12, free Waltz lesson at 7
p.m., Social Ballroom Dance at
8 p.m. ($16); Jan. 15, Ballroom
Bash from 8:30–10:30 p.m. ($16);
Jan. 16, Tea Dance from 12:303:30 p.m. ($6), 2126 Industrial
Highway, Silver Spring, 301326-1181, www.hollywoodballroomdc.com
Glen Echo Park is at 7300
MacArthur Blvd.
Blues, Capital Blues: Thurs-
days, 8:15 p.m. beginner lesson,
9-11:30 p.m. dancing to DJs,
Glen Echo Park’s Spanish Ballroom Annex, $8, www.capitalblues.org.
Contra, Jan. 10, Perry Shafran and the Glen Echo Open
Band, 7:30 p.m. lesson, 8:30 p.m.
dance, Glen Echo Park Spanish
Ballroom, $10, www.fridaynightdance.org.
Contra & Square, Jan. 12,
Paul Rosen calls with Ricochet;
Jan. 19, Perry Shafran with
Sibling Ribaldry; Jan. 26, Valerie Helbert with STEAM, 7:30
p.m., Glen Echo Park Spanish
Ballroom, $12 for general, $9 for
members, $5 for students, www.
fsgw.org.
English Country, Jan. 8,
Caller: Joseph Pimentel; Jan.
15, Caller: Tom Spilsbury; Jan.
22, Caller: Susan Taylor; Jan. 29,
Caller: Stephanie Smith, 8 p.m.,
Glen Echo Town Hall (upstairs),
www.fsgw.org.
Now and Then Dance Studio, Saturday ballroom dances,
second and fourth Saturdays,
beginner group lesson at 8 p.m.,
open dancing at 9 p.m., $10
cash at door (all men admitted
at half-price throughout October), 10111 Darnestown Road,
Rockville. 301-424-0007, www.
nowandthendancestudios.com.
Scottish Country Dancing,
8-10 p.m. Mondays, steps and
formations taught. No experience, partner necessary, T-39
Building on NIH campus, Wisconsin Avenue and South Drive,
Bethesda, 240-505-0339.
Swing, Jan. 18, Naomi & Her
Handsome Devils, lesson at 8
p.m., dancing at 9 p.m., Glen
Echo Park, $15, www.ﬂyingfeet.
org.
Waltz, Jan. 19, Hickman,
Glickman & Devine, 2:45-3:30
p.m. lesson, 3:30-6 p.m., dance,
$10, www.waltztimedances.org.
MUSIC & DANCE
Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, Billy Thompson, 7:30
JIMMY KATZ
The Ben Allison Band, featuring Allison, Brandon Seabrook, Steve Cardenas and Allison Miller, will
perform at The Mansion at Strathmore on Friday and Saturday.
ing community, building audiences for new
music — those sorts of things.”
Allison has found a new outlet with a position as a member of the New York Chapter
of the National Academy of Recording Arts
and Sciences.
enjoy the fruits of Flemming
and the actor’s labor, they too
will be participating in the telling of the play.
“At one point in the show,
the entire audience will be
dragged into a production of
‘Hamlet,’” Flemming laughed.
“The audience, especially
those in the front few rows,
may find themselves in the
middle of the action whether
they thought it would happen
or not!”
Flemming said those who
are fans of the Bard have nothing to fear. (If, when reading the ﬁrst paragraph of this
story, the reader cringes, then
it’s probably a safe bet you’re
a Shakespeare buff.) Whereas
the play boils all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays into a modicum
of time, true fans will enjoy it.
“I’m one of those people,” Flemming said. “I love
Shakespeare with a flaming
passion. The more you know
about Shakespeare, the funnier some of this stuff is. When
you see the divergence from
Shakespeare, when they do the
comedies and present them in
a different way, if you know
Shakespeare then it’s funnier
than anything. If you know
nothing about Shakespeare,
the show is just very zany and
enjoyable.
“But if you know Shakespeare, it’s more. There’s another level there.”
wfranklin@gazette.net
“I get the chance to put a voice to the
concerns of artists,” Allison said. “[It’s something] that I enjoy doing and appreciate the
chance to do.”
chedgepeth@gazette.net
p.m. Jan. 8; Andrew Neu, 7:30
p.m. Jan. 9; Dance Night with
Essence, 8 p.m. Jan. 10; Phillip Doc Martin, 8 p.m. Jan. 11;
Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Jazz Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 12; Perry
Conticchio Quartet, 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 15; Tizer featuring Karen
Briggs, 8 p.m. Jan. 16; Motown
& More: Tribute to Legends of
Motown & Soul, 8 p.m. Jan. 17;
Popa Chubby, 8 p.m. Jan. 18;
The Soul Serenaders, 8 p.m.
Jan. 19; Gotta Swing Dance
Night with Bad Inﬂuence, 7:30
p.m. Jan. 22; Sammy Figueroa
and his Latin Jazz Explosion, 8
p.m. Jan. 24; Antone “Chooky”
Caldwell, 8 p.m. Jan. 25; Ron Kearns Quintet with Special Guest
Michael Thomas, 7 p.m. Jan. 26;
Peter Fields and Rob Holmes - A
Tribute to Charlie Byrd & Stan
Getz, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29; Dave
Mason’s Trafﬁc Jam, 8 p.m. Jan.
30; Spectrum, 8 p.m. Jan. 31, call
for prices, 7719 Wisconsin Ave.,
Bethesda. 240-330-4500, www.
bethesdabluesjazz.com.
BlackRock Center for the
Arts, The 9 Songwriters Series,
8 p.m. Jan. 18; Charlotte Blake
Alston, 1 p.m. Jan. 25; Hot Club
of San Francisco and Cinema
Vivant, 8 p.m. Jan. 25; call for
tickets, 12901 Town Commons
Drive, Germantown. 301-5282260, www.blackrockcenter.org.
Institute of Musical Traditions — Takoma Park, Gentico-
rum, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 8; Takoma
Park Community Center, call
for prices, times, Takoma Park
Community Center, 7500 Maple
Ave., Takoma Park, 301-9603655, www.imtfolk.org.
Institute of Musical Traditions
— Rockville, Claire Lynch Band,
PAM BURKS
(From left) Jennifer Osborn, Steven Snapp and Andrew Greenleaf play out Shakespeare’s works — sort of — when they perform “The Complete Works of William
Shakespeare (Abridged)” at Silver Spring Stage.
7:30 p.m. Feb. 3; Nuala Kennedy, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 17; Carrie
Newcomer, 7:30 p.m. March 8,
Saint Mark Presbyterian Church,
10701 Old Georgetown Road,
Rockville, call for prices, www.
imtfolk.org.
Strathmore, Nellie McKay,
7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Jan. 9;
The Ben Allison Band, 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 10; BSO: Off the Cuff —
Dvorak’s New World Symphony,
8:15 p.m. Jan. 10; The Ben Allison Band Masterclass, 4 p.m.
Jan. 11; Historic Home Tour, 11
a.m. Jan. 13; AIR: Christie Dashiell, jazz vocalist, 7:30 p.m. Jan.
15, 29; Duo Sonidos, 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 16; BSO: Beethoven and
Mozart, 8 p.m. Jan. 16; Wired
In: Web and Social Media, 10
a.m. Jan. 18; Children’s Talk and
Tour, 10:15 a.m. Jan. 18; Art Talk,
1 p.m. Jan. 18; National Philharmonic: Three Great Classics, 8
p.m. Jan. 18; Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., Birthday Tribute and
Celebration, 3 p.m. Jan. 20; The
9 Songwriter Series Beneﬁts:
Ted Garber and Family, 7:30
p.m. Jan. 20; Artist in Residence
Education Workshop with
Christie Dashiell: A Jazz Journey,
7:30 p.m. Jan. 22; BSO: Marvin
Hamlisch — One Singular Sensation, 8 p.m. Jan. 23; Jazz Vocal
Intensive: Scat Singing 201, 10
a.m. Jan. 25; Denis Matsuev,
piano, 7 p.m. Jan. 25; Natascia
Diaz, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Jan. 25; Rob Patterson, Maria
Lambros & Audrey Andrist, 3
p.m. Jan. 26; Pixies, 8 p.m. Jan.
26; So You Think You Can’t Sing:
Harmony Edition, 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 27; Bill Cosby, 8 p.m. Jan.
30-31; AIR Alumni: John Kocur,
jazz saxophone, 11 a.m. Jan.
31, call for venue, Locations:
Mansion, 10701 Rockville Pike,
North Bethesda; Music Center
at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman
Lane, North Bethesda, 301-5815100, www.strathmore.org.
ON STAGE
Adventure Theatre, “Miss
Nelson is Missing,” Jan. 17 to
March 9, call for prices, times,
Adventure Theatre MTC, 7300
MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo,
301-634-2270, www.adventuretheatre-mtc.org.
Arts Barn, “Blame it On
Beckett,” 8 p.m. Fridays and
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays,
Jan. 10-26, 311 Kent Square
Road, Gaithersburg, 301-2586394, www.gaithersburgmd.gov/
artsbarn.
Imagination Stage, “Lyle the
Crocodile,” to Jan. 10, call for
prices, times, Imagination Stage,
4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda,
www.imaginationstage.org
Olney Theatre Center, “The
King and I,” to Jan. 12; call for
prices, times, 2001 Olney-Sandy
Spring Road, Olney, 301-9243400, www.olneytheatre.org.
The Puppet Co., “Tales of
Beatrix Potter,” Jan. 17 to Feb. 9;
Tiny Tots @ 10, select Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays,
call for shows and show times,
Puppet Co. Playhouse, Glen
Echo Park’s North Arcade Building, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., $5,
301-634-5380, www.thepuppetco.org.
Round House Theatre,
Bethesda, “Seminar,” Feb. 5 to
March 4, 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. 240-644-1100,
www.roundhousetheatre.org.
Round House Theatre, Silver
Spring, “Meena’s Dream,” Jan.
8-14, call for show times, 8641
Colesville Road, Silver Spring,
$15 for general admission, $10
for subscribers, patrons 30 and
younger and seniors, 244-6441100, www.roundhousetheatre.
org.
Silver Spring Stage, “The
Complete Works of William
Shakespeare (Abridged),” Jan. 10
to Feb. 1, Woodmoor Shopping
Center, 10145 Colesville Road,
Silver Spring, see website for
show times, www.ssstage.org.
The Writer’s Center, Travis
Nichols and Frank Tavares, 2-4
p.m. Jan. 12, 4508 Walsh Street,
Bethesda, 301-654-8664, www.
writer.org.
VISUAL ART
Adah Rose Gallery, “Residue,” Sharon Butler, Michael
Callaghan, Steven Charles,
J.D. Hastings and Toni Tiller,
to Feb. 9, 3766 Howard Ave.,
Kensington, 301-922-0162, www.
adahrosegallery.com
The Dennis and Phillip Ratner
Museum, TBA, hours are 10 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. Sundays, noon to 4
p.m. Monday through Thursday,
10001 Old Georgetown Road,
Bethesda. 301-897-1518.
Gallery B, “New Works on
Paper,” Jan. 8 to Feb. 1, opening
reception from 6-9 p.m. Jan. 10,
gallery hours are noon to 6 p.m.
Wednesday through Saturday,
7700 Wisconsin Ave., Suite E.
www.bethesda.org.
Glenview Mansion, The Pate
Painters, watercolor, oil, acrylic,
gouache, pastel, pencil, to Jan.
24, Rockville Civic Center Park,
503 Edmonston Drive, Rockville.
www.rockvillemd.gov.
Marin-Price Galleries, March
Avery, to Jan. 28, 10:30 a.m. to 7
p.m. Monday through Saturday,
noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, 7022
Wisconsin Ave., 301-718-0622.
VisArts, Michael Sellmeyer:
“Paintings, Drawings, Prints, That
Mostly Go Together,” to Jan. 12,
Common Ground Gallery; Lauren
Boilini: “Rabid Habits,” to Jan. 12,
Gibbs Street Gallery,155 Gibbs St.,
Rockville, 301-315-8200, www.
visartsatrockville.org.
Washington Printmakers
Gallery, “South African Voices:
A New Generation of Printmakers,” to Jan. 26, reception from
1-4 p.m. Jan. 11, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, second ﬂoor, 8230
Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, www.
washingtonprintmakers.com.
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who have died on the job. The following names will be added
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